Facilities


20 results recovered
Type of Facility: Source Term
CODEX
Organization:
MTA-EK
Type:
Source Term
Description:

Complex measurements were performed at the integral high temperature test facility CODEX (COre Degradation Experiment) between 1995-2002 with electrically heated UO2 fuel rod bundles. The test matrix included the first VVER-440 type integral severe accident experiment.
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
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: Thermal Hydraulics
E110DBAEKI
Organization:
MTA-EK
Type:
Thermal Hydraulics
Description:

Since the beginning of the 1990s’, several experimental series have been performed at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences KFKI Atomic Energy Research Institute (AEKI) with E110 and Zircaloy claddings.
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
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
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: Containment
MISTRA
Organization:
CEA
Type:
Containment
Description:

The influence of containment sprays on atmosphere behaviour is being investigated both experimentally and theoretically. Experiments are being performed on the TOSQAN and MISTRA experimental facilities.
Type of Facility: Thermal Hydraulics
PAKS
Organization:
MTA-EK
Type:
Thermal Hydraulics
Description:

The activities covered the following three areas:
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: 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: 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: 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: 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