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
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: Thermal Hydraulics
HIPE
Organization:
LUT
Type:
Thermal Hydraulics
Description:

Test facility was designed in such a way that it enables to conduct experiments at any inclination of the flow channel. Test facility will be also used for demonstrational and educational purposes.
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
PACTEL
Organization:
LUT
Type:
Thermal Hydraulics
Description:

PACTEL is a volumetrically scaled (1: 305) facility including a pressurizer, high and low pressure emergency core cooling systems, and accumulators. The reactor vessel is simulated with a U-tube construction including separate downcomer and core sections.
Type of Facility: Thermal Hydraulics
PCCS
Organization:
LUT
Type:
Thermal Hydraulics
Description:

To study the behavior of the PCCS configuration planned to be used in the ABWR II concept and to gain experimental data for the validation work of MELCOR severe accident code, a scaled down PCCS model was designed and constructed at Lappeenranta University of Technology in Finland in 2012–2013.
Type of Facility: Thermal Hydraulics
PPOOLEX
Organization:
LUT
Type:
Thermal Hydraulics
Description:

The PPOOLEX facility consists of a pressure vessel containing a wet well compartment (condensation pool), dry well compartment, inlet plenum and air/steam line piping.
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
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