Research Article

The Investigation of Nonavailability of Passive Safety Systems Effects on Small Break LOCA Sequence in AP1000 Using RELAP5 MOD 4.0

Table 2

Comparison of steady-state results.

ParametersRELAP5 resultsActual value [2]Error

Core thermal power (MW)34103410
Coolant volume flow per loop (m3/s)9.939.94−0.01
RCS pressure (MPa)15.5415.52+0.02
Core inlet temperature (K)553.91553.82+0.09
Core outlet temperature (K)594.19594.25−0.06
Core average temperature (K)574.05574+0.05
SG secondary pressure (MPa)5.625.61+0.01
SG feedwater temperature (K)499.84499.82+0.02