Facilities


33 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: 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: 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: 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: Project
FASTNET
Organization:
European Commission
Type:
Project
Description:

EU FASTNET PROJECT CALCULATIONS
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: 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:
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: Thermal Hydraulics
LOBI
Organization:
European Commission
Type:
Thermal Hydraulics
Description:

The LOBI Project originated from a reactor safety research and development contract between the European Commission and the former Bundesminister für Forschung und Technologie of the Federal Republic of Germany.
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.

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