The coolability limits of a reactor pressure vessel lower head
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Configurations II and III of the ULPU experimental facility are described, and results from a comprehensive set of experiments are provided. The facility affords full-scale simulations of the boiling crisis phenomenon on the hemispherical lower head of a reactor pressure vessel submerged in water, and heated internally. Whereas Configuration I experiments (published previously) established the lower limits of coolability under low submergence, pool-boiling conditions, with Configuration II we investigate coolability under conditions more appropriate to practical interest in severe accident management; that is, heat flux shapes (as functions of angular position) representative of a core melt contained by the lower head, full submergence of the reactor pressure vessel, and natural circulation. Additionally, with Configuration III, we examine the effect of a channel-like geometry created by the reactor vessel thermal insulation. Critical heat fluxes as a function of the angular position on the lower head are reported and related to the observed two-phase flow regimes.
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