November 2011

Conference Paper

Design of a Scaled-down DRACS Test Facility for an AHTR

By:
Christensen, Richard; Lv, Q.; Subharwall, Piyush; Sun, Xiaodong; Blue, T.; Yoder Jr, Graydon L; Wilson, Dane F; Wang, X.
Page Number:
1031-1034
Volume:
105
Publication Date:
November 2011
Conference Name:
American Nuclear Society
Conference Location:
Washington, Virginia, United States of America

Abstract

A Direct Reactor Auxiliary Cooling System (DRACS) has been proposed for an Advanced-High Temperature Reactor (AHTR) that uses fluoride salt as the coolant. A study is being carried out to test its performance and provide experimental data for model validation. A detailed scaling analysis has been performed for the DRACS, as reported in a companion paper [1], in which a scaling methodology is developed. In this paper, scaling results for a protoltypic DRACS design are presented to design a scaled-down DRACs test facility.