FARO base case post-test analysis by COMETA code

Technical Report · Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1995

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/115086· OSTI ID:115086

Annunziato, A.; Addabbo, C. ^[1]

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1. Joint Research Centre, Ispra (Italy)

The paper analyzes the COMETA (Core Melt Thermal-Hydraulic Analysis) post test calculations of FARO Test L-11, the so-called Base Case Test. The FARO Facility, located at JRC Ispra, is used to simulate the consequences of Severe Accidents in Nuclear Power Plants under a variety of conditions. The COMETA Code has a 6 equations two phase flow field and a 3 phases corium field: the jet, the droplets and the fused-debris bed. The analysis shown that the code is able to pick-up all the major phenomena occurring during the fuel-coolant interaction pre-mixing phase.

• Research Organization: Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC (United States). Div. of Systems Technology; American Nuclear Society, La Grange Park, IL (United States); American Inst. of Chemical Engineers, New York, NY (United States); American Society of Mechanical Engineers, New York, NY (United States); Canadian Nuclear Society, Toronto, ON (Canada); European Nuclear Society (ENS), Bern (Switzerland); Atomic Energy Society of Japan, Tokyo (Japan); Japan Society of Multiphase Flow, Kyoto (Japan)
• OSTI ID: 115086
• Report Number(s): NUREG/CP--0142-Vol.3; CONF-950904--Vol.3; ON: TI95017079
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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