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Validation study of sodium pool fire modeling efforts in MELCOR and SPHINCS codes Open

David Louie, Mitsuhiro Aoyagi, Akihiro Uchibori, Takashi Takata, David Luxat · 2023

Injectable sacrificial material systems and methods to contain molten corium in nuclear accidents Open

Yifeng Wang, David Louie, Rekha R. Rao, Jeremy Alan Templeton · 2023

Systems and methods for injecting a carbonate-based sacrificial material into a nuclear reactor containment for containment of molten corium in severe nuclear reactor accidents are disclosed. Molten corium can be quickly cooled and solidif…

Enhancement of Sodium Pool Fire Modeling in MELCOR. Open

David Louie · 2022

Sodium Fire Collaborative Study Progress (CNWG Fiscal Year 2022) Open

David Louie, Mitsuhiro Aoyagi · 2022

This report discusses the progress on the collaboration between Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia) and Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) on the sodium fire research in fiscal year (FY) 2022 and is a continuation of the FY 2021 progress …

Validation Study of Sodium Pool Fire Modeling Efforts in MELCOR and SPHINCS Codes. Open

David Louie, Mitsuhiro Aoyagi · 2022

MELCOR Validation Study of the Sodium Pool Fire Model with Comparison to SPHINCS. Open

David Louie, Mitsuhiro Aoyagi · 2022

Study of alkaline carbonate cooling to mitigate Ex-Vessel molten corium accidents Open

David Louie, Yifeng Wang, Rekha R. Rao, Alec Kucala, Jessica Nicole Kruichak · 2022

MELCOR INTEGRATED SEVERE ACCIDENT CODE FOR NON-LWR APPLICATIONS. Open

Larry L. Humphries, Bradley Beeny, David Louie, Fred Gelbard, Rodney C. Schmidt , et al. · 2022

MELCOR CODE VALIDATION STUDIES ON FIRE ACCIDENTS IN NON-REACTOR FACILITIES. Open

David Louie, David Luxat, Samir El-Darazi, Lyndsey Fyffe, James H. Clark · 2022

MELCOR Overview Introduction . Open

David Luxat, David Louie, Larry L. Humphries · 2022

MELCOR Overview Summary. Open

David Luxat, David Louie, Larry L. Humphries · 2022

MELCOR Validation Study on Sodium Pool Fire Model with Comparison to SPHINCS Open

David Louie, Mitsuhiro Aoyagi · 2022

CNWG Collaborative Research -SNL and JAEA - FY20. Open

David Louie · 2021

Sodium Fire Collaborative Study Progress CNWG Fiscal Year 2021 Open

David Louie, Mitsuhiro Aoyagi · 2021

This report discusses the progress on the collaboration between Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia) and Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) on the sodium fire research in fiscal year (FY) 2021 and is a continuation of the FY2020 progress r…

Using Alkaline Carbonate to Mitigate Molten Corium in Severe Nuclear Reactor Accidents. Open

David Louie, Yifeng Wang, Rekha R. Rao, Alec Kucala, Jessica Nicole Kruichak · 2021

Review of Spent Fuel Reprocessing and Associated Accident Phenomena. Open

Fred Gelbard, Alexander Brown, David Louie, Flint Pierce, Jesse Phillips , et al. · 2021

Review of Spent Fuel Reprocessing and Associated Accident Phenomena. Open

Fred Gelbard, Alexander Brown, David Louie, Nathan-X Bixler · 2021

Study of Recent Sodium Pool Fire Model Improvements for MELCOR Code Open

Mitsuhiro Aoyagi, David Louie, Akihiro Uchibori, Takashi Takata, David Luxat · 2021

The Sodium Chemistry (NAC) package in MELCOR has been developed to enhance application to sodium cooled fast reactor. The models in the NAC package have been assessed through benchmark analyses. The F7-1 sodium pool fire experimental analy…

Study of Sodium Pool Fire Model Improvement in MELCOR for SFR. Open

David Louie, Mitsuhiro Aoyagi · 2021

Task 2-aDevelopment and V&V of multi-physics mechanistic numerical simulation methods. Open

David Louie, Akihiro Uchibori, Takashi Takata · 2021

Numerical Simulation of Container Breach and Airborne Release of Solids Due to Mechanical Insults Open

David Louie, San Le, Lindsay Gilkey · 2021

Throughout U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) complexes, safety engineers employ the five-factor formula to calculate the source term (ST) that includes parameters of airborne release fraction (ARF), respirable fraction (RF) and damage ratio …

MELCOR Validation Study on Multi-Room Fire. Open

David Louie, Samir El-Darazi, Lyndsey Fyffe, James H. Clark · 2021

MELCOR Code Validation for LPF Applications. Open

David Louie · 2021

Sodium Fire Collaborative Study Progress -- CNWG Fiscal Year 2020 Open

David Louie, Mitsuhiro Aoyagi · 2021

This report discusses the progress on the collaboration between Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia) and Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) on the sodium fire research in fiscal year 2020. First, the current sodium pool fire model in MELCO…

Development of the sodium fire module in integrated severe accident analysis code, SPECTRA Open

Mitsuhiro Aoyagi, Akihiro Uchibori, Takashi Takata, David Louie · 2021

The SPECTRA code has been developed as an integrated simulation system for severe accident evaluation in a sodium cooled fast reactor. In this study, the sodium pool fire model of SPECTRA is accessed through the benchmark analysis of the F…

MELCOR Code Change History (Revision 14959 to 18019) Open

Larry L. Humphries, Jesse Phillips, Rodney C. Schmidt, Bradley Beeny, David Louie , et al. · 2020

This document summarily provides brief descriptions of the MELCOR code enhancement made between code revision number 14959and 18019. Revision 14959 represents the previous official code release; therefore, the modeling features described w…

MELCOR Demonstration Analysis of Accident Scenarios at a Spent Nuclear Reprocessing Plant Open

K.C. Wagner, David Louie · 2020

The work presented in this paper applies the MELCOR code developed at Sandia National Laboratories to evaluate the source terms from potential accidents in non-reactor nuclear facilities. The present approach provides an integrated source …

Sodium Fire Analysis Using a Sodium Chemistry Package in MELCOR Open

Mitsuhiro Aoyagi, Akihiro Uchibori, Takahi Takata, David Louie, A. J. Clark · 2020

The Sodium Chemistry (NAC) package in MELCOR has been developed to enhance application to sodium cooled fast reactors. The models in the NAC package have been assessed through benchmark analyses. The F7-1 pool fire experimental analysis is…

Nuclear Facility Safety at the United States Department of Energy Open

Patrick Frias, José R. O. Muñoz, Louis Restrepo, James L. Tingey, David Louie · 2020

Nuclear facility safety is crucial to preventing and/or reducing high consequence-low probability accidents and, thus reducing the potential risks posed by United States Department of Energy (DOE) and National Nuclear Security Administrati…

Injectable Sacrifical Material Safety System to Mitigae Molten Corium in Containment. Open

David Louie · 2020

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