Experimental validation of simplified radionuclide transport bubble scrubbing code in sodium coolant pool

The Release of the Simplified Radionuclide Transport (SRT) Code (V.2.1)

“…Additional information on the calculation performed by the detailed bubble model can be found in refs [9,10]. There have been recent improvements to the detailed bubble transport model and validation case based on findings from sodium bubble transport experiments conducted at the University of Wisconsin (UW) [11,12]. Multiple options are now available to users of the detailed bubble model, including the possibility to conduct an internal uncertainty analysis focused on the bubble transport calculation, which is performed separately from the code's greater uncertainty iterations, described in Section 2.2.2.…”

“…Past Argonne studies have noted the importance of this phenomenon, which has led to DOE:NE funding a series of experiments examining the phenomenon at the UW [11,12]. These experiments (further discussed in Section 4.1) provided valuable insight into the behavior of aerosols within bubbles in a sodium pool.…”