Review of Inaccuracies in the Analysis of the Flow Stability Specific of the LW-SMR Modular Design

Aleksey Rezvoi

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Review of Inaccuracies in the Analysis of the Flow Stability Specific of the LW-SMR Modular Design

Aleksey Rezvoi

Published in Engineering Science (Volume 8, Issue 1)

Received: 25 September 2022 Accepted: 9 November 2022 Published: 28 February 2023

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The presented analysis has been issued to express doubts about the correctness of the engineering and operational safety assessment, which arises from the modeling of transient modes and methodologically should help light water small modular nuclear reactor designers/developers to correct the model they are usually creating for studying the stability of the thermal-hydraulic circuit of the light water small modular nuclear reactor with the natural circulation of primary coolant. After the NuScale report publication and the following presentation review, additional questions arise regarding the analysis methodology, which was carried out and presented as part of the licensing package presented to NRC. After having carefully and critically read the available part of the presented report on the study of instabilities and the presentation issued by NuScale, the answer to the NRC safety committee request could be concluded that the instability analysis has not been performed correctly not only technically, but theoretically. Some clarification of the problem of analysis of instabilities is required additional explanations for further integral light water small modular nuclear reactor design developments and correct analysis implementations.

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DOI	10.11648/j.es.20230801.11
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Keywords

SMR, Natural Circulation, Primary Circuit Instabilities, Two-Phase Flow, Once-Through Steam Generator

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Aleksey Rezvoi. Review of Inaccuracies in the Analysis of the Flow Stability Specific of the LW-SMR Modular Design. Eng. Sci. 2023, 8(1), 1-5. doi: 10.11648/j.es.20230801.11

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Aleksey Rezvoi. Review of Inaccuracies in the Analysis of the Flow Stability Specific of the LW-SMR Modular Design. Eng Sci. 2023;8(1):1-5. doi: 10.11648/j.es.20230801.11

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