THE THERMAL MODE OF LARGE-SPAN EXCAVATIONS DURING THE CONSTRUCTION OF NUCLEAR POWER FACILITIES

The paper observes particular experimental research results on increase of stability of mining excavations in a permafrost area under low positive temperatures. The authors discuss the tasks on determining the temperature field parameters around the different-section excavations of underground small nuclear power plants at the construction stage. The mathematical models were designed for heat transfer processes in frozen rocks. The rocks were simulated as pore media filled with water with phase transfer under heating. This allowed creating virtual computing stands on which it became possible to work out the thermal modes of excavation driving.