Assessment of RELAP5/MOD2 Against a Pressurizer Spray Valve Inadverted Fully Opening Transient and Recovery by Natural Circulation in Jose Cabrera Nuclear Station (NUREG/IA-0124, ICSP–JC–SPR–R)

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Date Published: June 1993

Prepared by:
R. Arroyo, L. Rebollo

Union Electrica Fenosa
c/Capitan Haya 53
28020 Madrid
Spain

Prepared as part of:
The Agreement on Research Participation and Technical Exchange
under the International Thermal-Hydraulic Code Assessment
and Application Program (ICAP)

Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Washington, DC 20555-0001

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Abstract

This document presents the comparison between the simulation results and the plant measurements of a real event that took place in JOSE CABRERA nuclear power plant in August 30^th, 1984. The event was originated by the total, continuous and inadverted opening of the pressurizer spray valve PCV-400A.

JOSE CABRERA power plant is a single loop Westinghouse PWR belonging to UNION ELECTRICA FENOSA, S.A. (UNION FENOSA), an Spanish utility which participates in the International Code Assessment and Applications Program (ICAP) as a member of UNIDAD ELECTRICA, S.A. (UNESA). This is the second of its two contributions to the Program: the first one was an application case and this is an assessment one.

The simulation has been performed using the RELAP5/MOD2 cycle 36.04 code, running on a CDC CYBER 180/830 computer under NOS 2.5 operating system.

The main phenomena have been calculated correctly and some conclusions about the 3D characteristics of the condensation due to the spray and its simulation with a ID tool have been got.