2015
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2015.03.022
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Recent severe accident research synthesis of the major outcomes from the SARNET network

Abstract: The SARNET network (Severe Accident Research NETwork of excellence), co-funded by the European Commission from 2004 to 2013, has allowed to significantly improve the knowledge on severe accidents and to disseminate it through courses and ERMSAR conferences. The major investigated topics, involving more than 250 researchers from 22 countries, were in- and ex-vessel corium/debris coolability, molten-core–concrete-interaction, steam explosion, hydrogen combustion and mitigation in containment, impact of oxidising… Show more

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“…In the last 40 years, several efforts have been carried out to investigate the release of fission products (FPs) from a damaged nuclear core and their subsequent behavior in the primary circuit and the containment system of a nuclear power plant during a severe accident (SA) sequence [1,2]. Different experimental campaigns were carried out investigating specific phenomena or the coupling among two or more phenomena, although only the international Phébus experimental program was devoted to the study of a SA in its different phases and aspects, the core degradation, the transport of FPs, and structural materials through the primary system, and finally their release into the containment [3].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the last 40 years, several efforts have been carried out to investigate the release of fission products (FPs) from a damaged nuclear core and their subsequent behavior in the primary circuit and the containment system of a nuclear power plant during a severe accident (SA) sequence [1,2]. Different experimental campaigns were carried out investigating specific phenomena or the coupling among two or more phenomena, although only the international Phébus experimental program was devoted to the study of a SA in its different phases and aspects, the core degradation, the transport of FPs, and structural materials through the primary system, and finally their release into the containment [3].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Despite the initial scepticism, SARNET proved to be a success through the consolidation of the European severe accident research capacities and through the significant research achievements [2]. The main end-products have been a big database on many of those phenomena worth investigating and the knowledge capitalization in the ASTEC code through further development and extensive validation.…”
Section: Sarnet Historymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the frame of the SARNET2 (Van Dorsselaere et al, 2015) work package WP8.3, the last test of the series, namely Phébus FPT3, was chosen as comparative exercise. For the FPT3 test, predictions or recalculations of the main physical parameters with different computer codes were compared with each other and above all with the experimental data, to promote the international exchange of experience among the participants in the use of nuclear safety codes.…”
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confidence: 99%