An emergency heat removal system (SAOT) that removes heat from the secondary loop of a fast sodium reactor by air cooling the surfaces of the piping and equipment of the heat-sink loops of the secondary loop is described and ways to optimize it are indicated. A method of evaluating the efficiency of such an SAOT is described, and the results of an evaluation for a fast sodium reactor are presented as an example showing that the system can be used in fast sodium reactors of any power capacity.
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Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 124, No. 1, pp. 3–8, January, 2018.
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Ashurko, Y.M. Emergency Heat Removal System for the Secondary Loop of a Fast Sodium Reactor and its Efficiency Evaluation. At Energy 124, 1–7 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10512-018-0366-9
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