Severe Accident Analysis for PHEBUS FPT0 Experiment with Code ICARE2
- Reactor Safety Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Engg. Hall-7, Mumbai 400085 (India)
- Institut de Radioprotection et Surete Nucleaire, 13115 Saint Paul Les Durance, Cadarache (France)
The PHEBUS Fission Product (FP) program was initiated to understand the phenomena involved in LWR severe accidents and validation of severe accident physical models. The code ICARE2 was developed at IRSN and validation program of this code against several tests has been carried out over the years. In continuation to the validation exercises for further improvement of the code understanding and predictions, a series of sensitivity study has been carried out for FPT0 test. The study has been carried out with an ICARE2 specific reference model. With the understanding gained from this study, a best estimate model has been developed for a better code prediction. The best estimate model predicts well the key parameters and degradation in the upper part is predicted well than the reference model. (authors)
- Research Organization:
- American Nuclear Society, 555 North Kensington Avenue, La Grange Park, IL 60526 (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 21021180
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 2006 International congress on advances in nuclear power plants - ICAPP'06, Reno - Nevada (United States), 4-8 Jun 2006; Other Information: Country of input: France; refs; Related Information: In: Proceedings of the 2006 international congress on advances in nuclear power plants - ICAPP'06, 2734 pages.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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