Ritwik Mandal
Directorate of Reactor Safety & Analysis, Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited, Mumbai, India
Nrependra Kumar
Directorate of Reactor Safety & Analysis,
Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited
Nabhikiya Urja Bhavan, Anushakti Nagar, Mumbai, Maharashtra, INDIA
Ashutosh Dixit
Directorate of Reactor Safety & Analysis,
Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited
Nabhikiya Urja Bhavan, Anushakti Nagar, Mumbai, Maharashtra, INDIA
S.K. Yadav
Directorate of Reactor Safety & Analysis,
Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited
Nabhikiya Urja Bhavan, Anushakti Nagar, Mumbai, Maharashtra, INDIA
T.A. Khan
Directorate of Reactor Safety & Analysis,
Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited
Nabhikiya Urja Bhavan, Anushakti Nagar, Mumbai, Maharashtra, INDIA
Manoj Kansal
Directorate of Reactor Safety & Analysis, Nuclear Power Corporation of India limited
Anushakti Nagar, Mumbai-400094, India
S. Hajela
Directorate of Reactor Safety & Analysis,
Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited
Nabhikiya Urja Bhavan, Anushakti Nagar, Mumbai, Maharashtra, PIN-400094, India
H. P. Rammohan
Directorate of Reactor Safety & Analysis, Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited, Mumbai, India
Large Break Loss of Coolant Accident (LBLOCA) is a design basis postulated event wherein a failure in large diameter pipes of the reactor coolant pressure boundary is postulated. Discharge in excess of the makeup capacity of the pressure control system, in any of the large diameter pipes in the main coolant system will cause voiding in the reactor core and add positive reactivity due to positive void coefficient characteristic of Pressurized Heavy Water Reactors (PHWRs). Sensing escalation of neutronic power beyond the demarcated set level, reactor protection systems get triggered and terminate the power transient. To study the system behavior during LBLOCA scenario and evaluation of Shutdown System performance for the governing case of LBLOCA with respect to power rise in 700 MWe PHWRs, NPCIL in-house developed System Thermal Hydraulic 3-D Neutronic code ATMIKA is used.