Core Flow Distribution from Coupled Supercritical Water Reactor Analysis

Abstract EN

This paper introduces an extended code package PARCS/RELAP5 to analyze steady state of SCWR US reference design.

An 8 × 8 quarter core model in PARCS and a reactor core model in RELAP5 are used to study the core flow distribution under various steady state conditions.

The possibility of moderator flow reversal is found in some hot moderator channels.

Different moderator flow orifice strategies, both uniform across the core and nonuniform based on the power distribution, are explored with the goal of preventing the reversal.