Comparative analysis of reactor pressure vessel failure using two thermo-fluid-structure coupling approaches
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DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2020.110819
Abstract: Abstract Reactor pressure vessel (RPV) failure analysis is a thermo-fluid-structure coupled problem involving the melt pool heat transfer and RPV structural failure. It is of great importance to the qualification of severe accident mitigation strategies… read more here.
Keywords: vessel failure; deformation; coupling approaches; failure ... See more keywords
Analysis of a LBLOCA with FLEX actuations in a PWR-W
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DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2020.110908
Abstract: Abstract After the Fukushima-Daiichi accident, different methods, strategies and guidelines were developed to improve the Severe Accident Management Guidelines (SAMG). One of these additions, named the FLEX strategies, relies on portable equipment to obtain power… read more here.
Keywords: water; water injection; vessel failure; portable equipment ... See more keywords
Evaluation of the containment vessel failure time from operator’s notifications during a severe accident
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DOI: 10.1080/00223131.2019.1612793
Abstract: ABSTRACT This paper aims at clarifying the potential and the limit of the method to surmise the timing of the containment vessel (CV) failure utilizing the Emergency Action Levels (EALs) issued as a nuclear operator’s… read more here.
Keywords: vessel failure; time; containment vessel; failure ... See more keywords
Bioabsorbable vascular scaffolds in routine practice: long-term results
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DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehab724.1435
Abstract: Recent publications suggest that bioabsorbable vascular scaffolds (BVS) carry an excess of thrombotic complications. Our goal was to describe the results in real life and in the long term, in a series of patients who… read more here.
Keywords: bioabsorbable vascular; vessel failure; target; target vessel ... See more keywords