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8-B. Determ<strong>in</strong>istic Accident Analysis (LOCA)<br />

8-B. Determ<strong>in</strong>istic Accident Analysis (LOCA)<br />

8.7 LARGE BREAK LOSS‐OF‐COOLANT<br />

ACCIDENT (LBLOCA)<br />

8.7.1. Background<br />

Emergency Core Cool<strong>in</strong>g Systems (ECCS) are required on light water reactors to provide<br />

cool<strong>in</strong>g of the reactor core <strong>in</strong> the event of a break <strong>in</strong> the reactor pip<strong>in</strong>g or the <strong>in</strong>advertent<br />

open<strong>in</strong>g of a relief valve or isolation valve, which are called loss‐of‐coolant accidents<br />

(LOCA). LOCA is a mode of failure for a nuclear reactor; if not managed effectively, the<br />

results of a LOCA could result <strong>in</strong> reactor core damage. Those postulated accidents result <strong>in</strong><br />

a loss of reactor coolant at a rate <strong>in</strong> excess of the capability of the reactor makeup system<br />

from breaks <strong>in</strong> the reactor coolant pressure boundary, up to and <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g a break equivalent<br />

<strong>in</strong> size to the double‐ended rupture of the largest pipe of the reactor coolant system.<br />

Nuclear reactors generate heat <strong>in</strong>ternally; to remove this heat and convert it <strong>in</strong>to useful<br />

electrical power, a coolant system is used. If this coolant flow is reduced, or lost altogether,

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