The EUR-required passive system for protection against unanticipated accidents in nuclear reactors has been developed. This system and the computational results obtained using three-dimensional computer codes are described. The experimental data are compared with numerical experiments performed using three-dimensional hydrodynamic codes and the KUPOL-M lumped-parameter code. The experiments made it possible to refine the closure relations used in integral codes.
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Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 115, No. 4, pp. 183–189, October, 2013.
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Bezlepkin, V.V., Zatevakhin, M.A., Krektunov, O.P. et al. Computational and Experimental Validation of a Passive Heat Removal System for NPP Containment with VVER-1200. At Energy 115, 215–223 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10512-014-9774-7
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