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Modeling of Boron Species in the Falcon 17 and ISP-34 Integral Tests

Mihalis Lazaridis, Joaquim Areia Capitão, Yannis Drossinos

Nuclear Technology / Volume 115 / Number 3 / September 1996 / Pages 359-367

Technical Note / Nuclear Reactor Safety / dx.doi.org/10.13182/NT96-A15845

The RAFT computer code for aerosol formation and transport was modified to include boron species in its chemical database. The modification was necessary to calculate fission product transport and deposition in the FAL-17 and ISP-34 Falcon tests, where boric acid was injected. The experimental results suggest that the transport of cesium is modified in the presence of boron. The results obtained with the modified RAFT code are presented; they show good agreement with experimental results for cesium and partial agreement for boron deposition in the Falcon silica tube. The new version of the RAFT code predicts the same behavior for iodine deposition as the previous version, where boron species were not included.