Experimental and Analytical Modeling of Natural Circulation and Forced Circulation BWRs: Thermal-Hydraulic, Core-Wide, and Regional Stability Phenomena

Currently, 434 nuclear power plants are in operation worldwide. 21% of them are known as Boiling Water Reactors (BWRs). These BWRs have pumps that cool their reactor cores (the forced circulation BWRs). In the design of new BWRs, ways to cool the core by a natural circulation flow, without pumps, also called natural circulation BWRs, are being...