Review of recent ANL safety experiments in SLSF and TREAT. [LMFBR]

Among the recent significant in-pile experiments conducted by ANL are Sodium Loop Safety Facility (SLSF) experiment P4 in the Engineering Test Facility (ETR) and TREAT experiments F3, F4, and J1. The P4 experiment, which had three heat-generating flow blockages each installed in six coolant channels in a 37-pin bundle of FTR (Fast Test Reactor)-type fuel elements, investigated the bounding consequences of severe local faults. The principal objectives were to eject molten fuel into the bundle geometry and, during subsequent extended operation, to characterize the behavior of (and response of instrumentation to) any subsequent blockage growth; secondary objectives included characterizing the severity of any molten-fuel/coolant interaction and the response of the coolant. The F3 and F4 experiments in TREAT were phenomenological tests to study the fuel-column disruption mode in loss-of-flow accidents. The J1 experiment was the first slow period (approx. 10 s) transient overpower experiment done in TREAT. Results of these experiments will be presented.