PIPER-ONE was a Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) simulator installed at the Scalbatraio Laboratory managed by Dipartimento di Costruzioni Meccaniche e Nucleari (DCMN, now DICI) of University of Pisa. PIPER-ONE was designed and constructed after the Three Mile Accident in 1979 to better understand Small Break Loss of Coolant Accident (SBLOCA) scenarios in Boiling Water Reactors (BWR). A dozen experiments were performed, including the experiment at the basis of the International Standard Problem (ISP) 21 in relation to which some information is given below. ISP 21 was a Small Break Loss of Coolant Accident (SBLOCA) scenario expected to occur in Boiling Water Reactors. One key feature of the proposed experiment was its Counterpart-Test feature which allowed the comparison with similar experiments performed in the FIST facility (available in US, San Jose, General Electric) and the ROSA-III facility (available in Japan at the JAERI research center of Tokai-Mura). The paper at the ETPFG meeting discusses key results from the experiments performed
Piper-one Research: overview of the experiments carried out and lesson learned
D'Auria F.
Co-primo
Validation
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1991-01-01
Abstract
PIPER-ONE was a Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) simulator installed at the Scalbatraio Laboratory managed by Dipartimento di Costruzioni Meccaniche e Nucleari (DCMN, now DICI) of University of Pisa. PIPER-ONE was designed and constructed after the Three Mile Accident in 1979 to better understand Small Break Loss of Coolant Accident (SBLOCA) scenarios in Boiling Water Reactors (BWR). A dozen experiments were performed, including the experiment at the basis of the International Standard Problem (ISP) 21 in relation to which some information is given below. ISP 21 was a Small Break Loss of Coolant Accident (SBLOCA) scenario expected to occur in Boiling Water Reactors. One key feature of the proposed experiment was its Counterpart-Test feature which allowed the comparison with similar experiments performed in the FIST facility (available in US, San Jose, General Electric) and the ROSA-III facility (available in Japan at the JAERI research center of Tokai-Mura). The paper at the ETPFG meeting discusses key results from the experiments performedI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
