20.08.2015   Fast Reactor Safety. (Nuclear science. and technology)

Assembly-to-Assembly Propagation

While the failed subassembly is being subjected to the sequence of events just described, the adjacent assembly can be expected to respond to two effects in addition to that of power changes caused by feedbacks from the failed assembly. First, it can be expected to feel some effect of the high pressures produced by successive voiding explosions in the failed sub­assembly, and finally it may be subjected to high heat fluxes due to failed and molten fuel against the assembly duct.