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In a sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR), liquid sodium is used as a coolant because of its excellent heat transport capability and a large safety margin to the boiling point (1153K) at the atmospheric pressure. On the other hand, it has strong chemical reactivity with water vapor. One of the design basis accidents of the SFR is the water leakage into the liquid sodium flow caused by a breach of heat...