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Important thermohydraulic aspects during refilling and reflooding of an uncovered LWR core

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Safety of Thermal Water Reactors
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The topic of this presentation is an overview over the reflood process during a loss — of — coolant accident and — to be more specific — mainly during a LOCA resulting from the double ended break of the cold leg of the main coolant pipe of a PWR.

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Hicken, E.F. (1985). Important thermohydraulic aspects during refilling and reflooding of an uncovered LWR core. In: Skupinski, E., Tolley, B., Vilain, J. (eds) Safety of Thermal Water Reactors. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4972-0_6

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