Facilities


60 results recovered
Type of Facility: Corium
PREMIX
Organization:
KIT
Type:
Corium
Description:

The test facility consists of a slender cylinder with an effective inner diameter of 0.66 m bearing plane glass windows in the front and back sides. The upper part is occupied by the melt generator which leaves a 0.14 m wide annular space for the steam flow.
Type of Facility: Thermal Hydraulics
PWR PACTEL
Organization:
LUT
Type:
Thermal Hydraulics
Description:

The PWR PACTEL facility consists of a reactor pressure vessel model, two loops with vertical steam generators, a pressurizer, and emergency core cooling systems. The new loops and steam generators of EPR style construction enable the PWR and EPR related experimental research.
Type of Facility: Corium
QUENCH
Organization:
KIT
Type:
Corium
Description:

An important accident management measure for controlling severe accident transients in light water reactors (LWRs) is the injection of water to cool the degrading core.
Type of Facility: Corium
QUEOS
Organization:
KIT
Type:
Corium
Description:

The QUEOS facility consists of the test vessel, the furnace and the valve system separating the two. The spheres are heated in an electric radiation furnace in an argon atmosphere. The spheres are discharged into the water with a drop height of 130 cm.
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: Containment
REKO
Organization:
FZ-Jülich
Type:
Containment
Description:

The catalyst sheets (stainless steel coated with washcoat/platinum catalyst material) are arranged in parallel forming vertical rectangular flow channels. Such a set-up represents a box-type recombiner section of AREVA design.
Type of Facility: Source Term
RTF
Organization:
IRSN
Type:
Source Term
Description:

Facility is not operating.
Type of Facility: Thermal Hydraulics
RUSET
Organization:
MTA-EK
Type:
Thermal Hydraulics
Description:

The RUSET experimental programme was launched in 2002 at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences KFKI Atomic Energy Research Institute (AEKI). The aim of the program was to get data for assessment of ruthenium release at severe accident with air ingress.
Type of Facility: Source Term
RUTHENIUM
Organization:
IRSN
Type:
Source Term
Description:

No description available.
Type of Facility: Thermal Hydraulics
SFRD
Organization:
MTA-EK
Type:
Thermal Hydraulics
Description:

The high temperature interaction of reactor core materials during a severe accident leads to the oxidation and melting of metal components.
Type of Facility: Thermal Hydraulics
SGTR
Organization:
Ciemat
Type:
Thermal Hydraulics
Description:

No description available.
Type of Facility: Corium
SIMECO
Organization:
KTH
Type:
Corium
Description:

The SIMECO (SImulation of MElt COolability) test facility consists of a slice type vessel, which includes a semi-circular section and a vertical section, representing the lower head of the reactor vessel. The size of the facility is scaled to be 1/8 of prototypic PWR type reactors.
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: Source Term
STORM
Organization:
European Commission
Type:
Source Term
Description:

The test section was located downstream of the mixing vessel; it consisted of four steel pipes connected in series and/or parallel.
Type of Facility: Containment
TOSQAN
Organization:
CEA
Type:
Containment
Description:

The experiment objective was to study the physical phenomena that affect hydrogen distribution in the reactor containment such as: steam wall condensation, heat mass and momentum exchanges with the sump or with the containment spray systems.
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.
Type of Facility: Source Term
VERDON
Organization:
CEA
Type:
Source Term
Description:

VERDON programme has been launched by the CEA as a follow-up of VERCORS programme.
Type of Facility: Corium
VITI
Organization:
CEA
Type:
Corium
Description:

VITI (‘‘VIscosity Temperature Installation’’) experimental assembly: (1) VITI chamber, (2) graphite crucible, (3) ZrCcoating, (4) studied mixture, (5) graphite susceptor, (6) thermal shield, (7) support for crucible, (8) support for thermal shield, (9) inductance coil, (10) pyrometer – measure of
Type of Facility: Corium
VULCANO
Organization:
CEA
Type:
Corium
Description:

In the hypothetical case of a nuclear reactor severe accident, the reactor core could melt and form a mixture, called corium, of highly refractory oxides (UO2, ZrO2) and metallic or oxidized steel, that could eventually flow out of the vessel and mix with the basemat decomposition products (gener

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