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@ARTICLE{Moormann:136055,
author = {Moormann, R.},
title = {{F}ission {P}roduct {T}ransport and {S}ource {T}erms in
{HTR}s: {E}xperience from {AVR} {P}ebble {B}ed {R}eactor},
journal = {Science and technology of nuclear installations},
publisher = {Hindawi Publishing Corporation},
reportid = {PreJuSER-136055},
pages = {597491},
note = {Record converted from JUWEL: 18.07.2013},
comment = {Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations},
booktitle = {Science and Technology of Nuclear
Installations},
abstract = {Fission products deposited in the coolant circuit outside
of the active core play a dominant role in source term
estimations for advanced small pebble bed HTRs, particularly
in design basis accidents (DBA). The deposited fission
products may be released in depressurization accidents
because present pebble bed HTR concepts abstain from a gas
tight containment. Contamination of the circuit also hinders
maintenance work. Experiments, performed from 1972 to 88 on
the AVR, an experimental pebble bed HTR, allow for a deeper
insight into fission product transport behavior. The
activity deposition per coolant pass was lower than expected
and was influenced by fission product chemistry and by
presence of carbonaceous dust. The latter lead also to
inconsistencies between Cs plate out experiments in
laboratory and in AVR. The deposition behavior of Ag was in
line with present models. Dust as activity carrier is of
safety relevance because of its mobility and of its sorption
capability for fission products. All metal surfaces in
pebble bed reactors were covered by a carbonaceous dust
layer. Dust in AVR was produced by abrasion in amounts of
about 5 kg/y. Additional dust sources in AVR were ours oil
ingress and peeling of fuel element surfaces due to an air
ingress. Dust has a size of about 1 μm, consists mainly
of graphite, is partly remobilized by flow perturbations,
and deposits with time constants of 1 to 2 h ours. In
future reactors, an efficient filtering via a gas tight
containment is required because accidents with fast
depressurizations induce dust mobilization. Enhanced core
temperatures in normal operation as in AVR and broken fuel
pebbles have to be considered, as inflammable dust
concentrations in the gas phase.},
cin = {IEF-6},
ddc = {600},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)VDB814},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
doi = {10.1155/2008/597491},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/136055},
}