Characterization of sodium fires and fission products. Progress report, October-December 1975. [LMFBR]

The objectives of the research program are to develop a computer program for calculating two-dimensional, transient, natural-convection phenomena, such as those arising from various postulated sodium spill accidents in LMFBR heat transfer vaults, head compartments, containment buildings, and secondary heat transfer systems; to develop experimental programs and conduct tests that will characterize the behavior of sodium, sodium oxide, fuel, fission product, and other aerosols as they might be generated by various postulated LMFBR accident; and to determine by analysis and experiment the generation and transport of these aerosols with respect to source (location, type, and configuration) release dispersal, agglomeration attenuation, and removal for the entire course of events associated with real and hypothetical accident conditions.