Development of Three-Dimensional Sodium Pool Model for System Analysis of Pool-Type Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor

As the thermal-hydraulic characteristic in sodium pool is crucial for safety operation of liquid metal fast breeder reactor (LMFBR), a three-dimensional sodium pool thermal-hydraulic analysis code was developed based on SIMPLE algorithm on stagger grid under Cartesian coordinates and cylindrical coordinates. After the validation with CFX, coupling between the analysis code and SAC-CFR was completed, and then the coupled code was applied to the flow field analysis in upper plenum of Monju Plant at 45% thermal power steady-state operation condition, which preliminary shows the effectiveness of the system analysis with coupled code and makes preparations for further development of accident analysis model and passive residual heat removal system.