Research Article
SIMMER-III Analyses of Local Fuel-Coolant Interactions in a Simulated Molten Fuel Pool: Effect of Coolant Quantity
Table 1
Measurement parameters and their descriptions.
| Parameters | Sensing location | Sensor description |
| Temperature | Melt | TM1~8 | Thermocouple (1.6 mm, 1 kHz) | External wall | TW1~5 | Thermocouple (3.2 mm, 1 kHz) | Cover gas | TG1~6 | Thermocouple (1.6 mm, 1 kHz) | Water/flask | TF1~3 | Thermocouple (1.0 mm, 1 kHz) |
| Pressure | Melt | PS1~2 | High-temperature pressure sensor (24 kHz, <873 K) (PS1 <10 MPa, PS2 <20 MPa) | Cover gas | PT1~2 | Semiconductor-type (24 kHz, <1.7 MPa) |
| Strain | Interaction vessel | SG1~2 | High-temperature strain gauge (24 kHz, <1023 K) |
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