Facilities


19 results recovered
Type of Facility: Source Term
Becarre
Organization:
IRSN
Type:
Source Term
Description:

Characterisation methods:

Type of Facility: Source Term
CAIMAN
Organization:
IRSN
Type:
Source Term
Description:

Iodine is a fission product of major importance, because volatile species can be formed under severe nuclear reactor accident conditions, and may potentially be released into the environment, leading to significant radiological consequences.
Type of Facility: Containment
CARAIDAS
Organization:
IRSN
Type:
Containment
Description:

In order to comply with experimental device design requirements, different devices were developped, tested and set up on CARAIDAS:
Type of Facility: Source Term
CHIP
Organization:
IRSN
Type:
Source Term
Description:

This programme is dedicated to studying iodine chemistry under thermal non equilibrium (impact of chemical kinetics) in the primary cooling system in the event of a core meltdown accident in a water reactor.
The CHIP programme follows two axes which respectivly aims to:
Type of Facility: Source Term
EMAIC
Organization:
IRSN
Type:
Source Term
Description:

This emission has an impact on the iodine chemistry (AgI) and on the behavior of aerosols in the reactor primary circuit and in the containment. The presence of control rod material influences the source term potentially present in a PWR containment and likely to in the atmosphere.
Type of Facility: Source Term
Epicur
Organization:
IRSN
Type:
Source Term
Description:

This programme will help to better estimate the quantity of radioactive iodine released during a core meltdown accident taken into account when elaborating specific emergency plans.
Type of Facility: Source Term
HEVA
Organization:
IRSN
Type:
Source Term
Description:

HEVA programme started a series of fission-product release experiments, which have been continued with the VERCORS programme. HEVA and the three VERCORS (RT and HT) series represent a total of 28 tests.
Type of Facility: Source Term
ISTP
Organization:
IRSN
Type:
Source Term
Description:

SOURCE TERM is an international research programme carried out by IRSN and CEA (Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique) with the support of Electricité de France, the European Commission, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (US), GDF/ SUEZ/ Tractebel (Belgium), Atomic Energy Canada Limited (Canada),

Type of Facility: Source Term
MOZART
Organization:
IRSN
Type:
Source Term
Description:

Mozart program to determine the air-oxidation kinetics of zirconium alloys at high temperature.
Type of Facility: Source Term
PARIS
Organization:
IRSN
Type:
Source Term
Description:

In case of a hypothetical severe accident in a nuclear LWR (light water reactor), the high radiation fields reached in the reactor containment building due to the release of fission products from the reactor core could induce air radiolysis.
Type of Facility: Corium
PEARL
Organization:
IRSN
Type:
Corium
Description:

In case of prolonged loss of cooling accident, the fuel rods of the core of a pressurized water reactor (PWR) will be damaged, and will collapse to form what is called a "debris bed", i.e.
Type of Facility: Source Term
PHEBUS
Organization:
IRSN
Type:
Source Term
Description:

Since the core meltdown accident in the Three Mile Island reactor in 1979, a series of experimental safety research programmes has been conducted by a number of international research organisations, including the IRSN, which manages the European SARNET network.
Type of Facility: Corium
PRELUDE
Organization:
IRSN
Type:
Corium
Description:

The tests conducted in the PRELUDE facility help to validate key technical options for PEARL:
Type of Facility: Containment
RECI
Organization:
IRSN
Type:
Containment
Description:

RECI is a 2½ year experimental programme that was brought to completion as of October 2004.
Type of Facility: Source Term
RTF
Organization:
IRSN
Type:
Source Term
Description:

Facility is not operating.
Type of Facility: Source Term
RUTHENIUM
Organization:
IRSN
Type:
Source Term
Description:

No description available.
Type of Facility: Source Term
SISYPHE
Organization:
IRSN
Type:
Source Term
Description:

The purpose of the SISYPHE (Simulation du Système Phébus Enceinte) facility at Cadarache was to build a 1:1 replica of the Phébus FP experimental containment vessel, assisting the Phébus test interpretation, for all phenomena concerning thermal-hydraulics and fission product behaviour.
Type of Facility: Containment
TUBA
Organization:
IRSN
Type:
Containment
Description:

TUBA (thermo-phoresis and diffusiophoresis) programme included experiments represented conditions expected in the SG tubes. Laminar flow was used in TUBA tests (TUBA-T: thermophoresis and TUBA-D: diffusiophoresis & thermo-diffusiophoresis).
Type of Facility: Source Term
VERCORS
Organization:
IRSN
Type:
Source Term
Description:

The first tests were the HEVA series conducted between 1983 and 1989 where, with maximum temperatures restricted to 2100K, the main objective was to generate information on release of volatile FPs from UO2 fuel.