Experimental and analytical study on aerosol behavior in WIND project

The tests on fission product (FP) behavior in piping under severe accidents are being conducted in the wide range piping integrity demonstration (WIND ) project at JAERI to investigate the piping integrity which may be threate ned by decay heat from deposited FPs. In order to obtain the background inf ormation for future WIND experiment and to confirm analytical capabilities of the FP aerosol analysis codes, ART and VICTORIA, the FP behavior in safe ty relief valve (SRV) line of BWR during TQUX sequence was analyzed. The an alyses showed that the mechanisms that control the FP deposition and transp ort agreed well between the two codes. However, the differences in models s uch as diffusiophoresis or turbulence, the treatment of chemical forms and aerosol mass distribution could affect the deposition in piping and, conseq uently, on the source terms. The WIND experimental analyses were also condu cted with a three-dimensional fluiddynamic WINDFLOW, ART and an interface m odule to appropriately couple the fluiddynamics and FP behavior analyses. T he analyses showed that the major deposition mechanism for cesium iodide (C sI) is thermophoresis which depends on the thermal gradient in gas. Accordi ngly, the coupling analyses were found to be essential to accurately predic t the CsI deposition in piping, to which little attention has been paid in the previous studies. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.