Loss of Fluid Test

Japanese: Loss of Fluid Test(英語表記)LossofFluidTest
Loss of Fluid Test

…Since the end of 1963, AEC had been planning safety research consisting of five items: reactor dynamics research, primary system safety research, accident analysis, fission product behavior research, and safety test experiment planning. The last item was related to the experiment of a loss of coolant accident, called the LOFT (Loss of Fluid Test) plan, which included an experiment on the operation of the emergency core cooling system (ECCS). These were delayed, and a mock ECCS test was conducted in 1971, but the results showed that the injected water did not cool the core effectively. …

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Japanese:

…AECは63年末から,原子炉動特性の研究,一次系の安全性研究,事故解析,核分裂生成物の挙動の研究,安全性テスト実験計画の5項目からなる安全性研究を計画していた。この最後の項目に関係するのが冷却材喪失事故の実験でLOFT(ロフト)(Loss of Fluid Test)計画と呼ばれ,非常用炉心冷却系(ECCS)の作動実験を含んでいた。これらの実施はおくれ,71年にECCSの模擬テストが行われたが,その結果,注入した水がうまく炉心を冷却しないということが判明した。…

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