LOFT power ascension series L2. Appendix B to LOFT EOS Volume 1. Revision 0

A description of the first LOFT nuclear test series is presented. The test series selected was principally determined by the primary objective of the series. This objective is to run the full power, double ended cold leg break experiment, with and without pressurized fuel rods, at nominal ECCS design conditions, as soon as possible. This L2 test series objective was established because the Semiscale MOD-1 Blowdown Heat Transfer Test Series (S-02) confirmed that the double-ended cold leg break resulted in sufficiently high cladding temperatures to produce ideal data for code verification purposes.