Facilities


20 results recovered
Type of Facility: Corium
COLIMA
Organization:
CEA
Type:
Corium
Description:

Determination of the vaporization rate according to the composition and the thermodynamic conditions of the corium (with FP simulants) was the aim of the COLIMA (COrium LIquid and MAterials) experiments.
Type of Facility: Corium
DEFOR
Organization:
KTH
Type:
Corium
Description:

Reactor cavity flooding is a cornerstone of severe accident management strategy in Swedish type BWRs.
Type of Facility: Corium
DISCO-C
Organization:
KIT
Type:
Corium
Description:

The facility models the reactor pressure vessel (RPV), part of the reactor cooling system (RCS), the cavity, and the pump and steam generator rooms. The length scale is 1:18, compared to a large European reactor.
Type of Facility: Corium
DISCO-H
Organization:
KIT
Type:
Corium
Description:

The main components of the facility are scaled about 1:18 linearly to a large European reactor: the containment pressure vessel (volume 14 m³), the RPV-RCS pressure vessel (0.08 m³), the cavity, the subcompartment, and the steam accumulator (0.08 m³).
Type of Facility: Corium
ECO
Organization:
KIT
Type:
Corium
Description:

The ECO facility, housed inside the large FAUNA steel vessel, was designed for investigating energy conversion ratios up to 20 %, related to 10 kg of melt. In principle, it consists of a piston/ cylinder system having 4 m in the total height.
Type of Facility: Corium
FARO
Organization:
European Commission
Type:
Corium
Description:

The JRC-Ispra FARO plant was a large multipurpose test facility in which reactor severe accidents could be simulated by out-of-pile experiments.
Type of Facility: Corium
FARO_S
Organization:
European Commission
Type:
Corium
Description:

The JRC-Ispra FARO plant is a large multipurpose test facility in which reactor severe accidents could be simulated by out-of-pile experiments.
Type of Facility: Corium
FOREVER
Organization:
KTH
Type:
Corium
Description:

FOREVER program at KTH was concerned with the vessel integrity under the molten corium attack in the reactor lower plenum during a severe accident.
Type of Facility: Corium
KAJET
Organization:
KIT
Type:
Corium
Description:

The KAJET erosion test facility is shown in Fig. 10-1. Total melt masses of up to 300 kg can be provided by various types of melt generators. Driving pressures of up to 2.5 MPa can be established.
Type of Facility: Corium
KROTOS
Organization:
CEA
Type:
Corium
Description:

The test section of the KROTOS facility consists of a stainless steel test section bolted to lugs welded on the inner side walls of a stainless steel pressure vessel.
Type of Facility: Corium
KROTOS
Organization:
European Commission
Type:
Corium
Description:

The test section of the KROTOS facility consists of a stainless steel test section bolted to lugs welded on the inner side walls of a stainless steel pressure vessel.
Type of Facility: Corium
LIVE
Organization:
KIT
Type:
Corium
Description:

The LIVE facility at the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe is designed to study the late phase of core degradation, onset of melting and the formation and stability of melt pools in the RPV.
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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