In-vessel retention of molten corium: lessons learned and outstanding issues

JL Rempe, KY Suh, FB Cheung, SB Kim - Nuclear technology, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
In-vessel retention (IVR) of core melt is a key severe-accident-management strategy
adopted by some operating nuclear power plants and proposed for some advanced light …

Natural convection heat transfer in corium pools: A review work of experimental studies

L Zhang, Y Zhou, Y Zhang, W Tian, S Qiu… - Progress in Nuclear Energy, 2015 - Elsevier
During a severe accident in nuclear reactors, the core may melt and relocate into the lower
head. The decay power in the accumulated melt pool will threaten the integrity of the reactor …

Melting of Io by tidal dissipation

SJ Peale, P Cassen, RT Reynolds - Science, 1979 - science.org
Melting of lo by Tidal Dissipation Page 1 experiment with eukaryotic cellular DNA. For example,
the phage recombinants we constructed were ligated at a PY DNA concentration of 66 ,ug/ml …

Scaling of time‐dependent stagnant lid convection: Application to small‐scale convection on Earth and other terrestrial planets

VS Solomatov, LN Moresi - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Small‐scale convection associated with instabilities at the bottom of the lithospheric plates
on the Earth and other terrestrial planets occurs in the stagnant lid regime of temperature …

In-vessel retention of corium at the Loviisa plant

O Kymäläinen, H Tuomisto, TG Theofanous - Nuclear Engineering and …, 1997 - Elsevier
In-vessel retention of corium has been approved to be part of the severe accident
management strategy for IVO's Loviisa plant. The approach selected takes advantage of the …

Thermal histories of convective Earth models and constraints on radiogenic heat production in the Earth

GF Davies - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 1980 - Wiley Online Library
Thermal histories have been calculated for simple models of the earth which assume that
heat is transported by convection throughout the interior. The application of independent …

Thermal evolution models for the Earth

UR Christensen - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid …, 1985 - Wiley Online Library
Thermal evolution models for the earth which are based on a parameterization of the
convective heat transport are critically reexamined. Traditionally, it has been assumed that …

Whole planet cooling and the radiogenic heat source contents of the Earth and Moon

G Schubert, D Stevenson… - Journal of Geophysical …, 1980 - Wiley Online Library
It is widely believed that the surface heat flows of the earth and moon provide good
measures of the total amounts of radioactives in these bodies. Simple thermal evolution …

[图书][B] Internally heated convection and Rayleigh-Bénard convection

D Goluskin - 2016 - Springer
The purpose of this SpringerBrief is to review heat transfer in layers of convective fluid. Six
different configurations are considered—three that are versions of Rayleigh–Bénard (RB) …

Subsolidus convective cooling histories of terrestrial planets

G Schubert, P Cassen, RE Young - Icarus, 1979 - Elsevier
The subsolidus convective cooling histories of terrestrial planets evolving from hot initial
states are investigated with a simple analytic model which simulates the average heat …