Loss-of-Coolant Accident Performance of the Westinghouse 600-MW(electric) Advanced Pressurized Water Reactor

AP1000® Large-Break LOCA BEPU analysis with TRACE code

“…Thus, a comparison with a best-estimate TRACE simulation shows great differences and this is not the issue of this paper. On the other hand, AP1000 LBLOCA sequence evolution presents a quite similar behavior to that predicted previously for AP600, see Zhang et al (1998) and Kemper and Vertes (1989).…”