BOILING WATER REACTOR TURBINE TRIP (TT) BENCHMARK

NEA/NSC/DOC(2001)1
NEA NUCLEAR SCIENCE COMMITTEE
NEA COMMITTEE ON SAFETY OF NUCLEAR INSTALLATIONS
BOILING WATER REACTOR
TURBINE TRIP (TT) BENCHMARK
Volume I: Final Specifications
Revision 1 – October 2001
Corrections made to pages: 31, 32, 82, 83
by
Jorge Solis, Kostadin N. Ivanov and Baris Sarikaya
Nuclear Engineering Program
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA, 16802 USA
Andy M. Olson and Kenneth W. Hunt
Exelon Nuclear
200 Exelon Way, KSA2-N
Kennett Square, PA, 19348 USA
NUCLEAR ENERGY AGENCY
ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENTFOREWORD
The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA has recently completed under US Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) sponsorship a PWR main steam line break (MSLB) benchmark against coupled
system thermal-hydraulic and neutron kinetics codes. The benchmark was very well received
internationally. It was felt among the participants that there should be a similar benchmark against the
codes for a BWR plant transient. The turbine trip (TT) transients in a BWR are pressurisation events in
which the coupling between core phenomena and system dynamics plays an important role. In addition,
the data made available from experiments carried out at the plant make the present benchmark very
valuable. The NEA and US NRC have approved it for the purpose of validating advanced system
best-estimate analysis codes. A small team at Pennsylvania State University (PSU) was responsible for
authoring the final specifications, and will ...