Facility Details: ACRR-DC

Organization / Localization: SNL
Country: Albuquerque, NM, USA
Test Identification: DC1
SA-Related Topics / Phenomena: investigate the heatup and melt of dry reactor core debris to determine the thermal conductivity and melting kinetic behaviour of debris beds and dynamics of the formation and thermal characteristics of molten ceramic and/or metallic molten pools.
Measured Parameters: 2.14 kg UO2 debris, max T=3400 K
References: Hitchcock J T and Kelly J E, "The DC-1 and DC-2 Debris Bed Coolability and Melt Dynamics Experiments", NUREG/CR-4060, SAND84-1367, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, April 1985; Fryer C P and Hitchcock J T, "The Postirradiation Examination of the DC Melt Dynamics Experiments", NUREG/CR-4625, SAND86-1102, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, August 1987.
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Organization / Localization: SNL
Country: Albuquerque, NM, USA
Test Identification: DC2
SA-Related Topics / Phenomena: investigate the heatup and melt of dry reactor core debris to determine the thermal conductivity and melting kinetic behaviour of debris beds and dynamics of the formation and thermal characteristics of molten ceramic and/or metallic molten pools.
Measured Parameters: 1.54 kg UO2 debris + 0.51 kg SS, max T=2600 K
References: Hitchcock J T and Kelly J E, "The DC-1 and DC-2 Debris Bed Coolability and Melt Dynamics Experiments", NUREG/CR-4060, SAND84-1367, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, April 1985; Fryer C P and Hitchcock J T, "The Postirradiation Examination of the DC Melt Dynamics Experiments", NUREG/CR-4625, SAND86-1102, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, August 1987.

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