Jörg Starflinger

Examples for nuclear innovation – part 2: transportable and mobile heat pipe cooled microreactors

Abstract The second part of this publication on examples for nuclear innovation deals with new designs of transportable and mobile heat pipe cooled microreactors. Alkali metal filled heat pipes are one of the central components for the operational and residual heat removal from t...

Development of a heat pipe module for AC 2 /ATHLET and transient simulation of an experiment

Abstract A heat pipe module was developed for the thermal hydraulics system code AC 2 /ATHLET to facilitate the analysis of heat pipe cooled-reactor concepts. The tool enables the transient simulation of liquid metal heat pipes. For validation, an experiment with a potassium heat...