The development of severe accident codes at IRSN and their application to support the safety assessment of EPR

International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, Proceedings, ICONE

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Caroli, Cataldo ^a   Bleyer, Alexandre ^a   Bentaib, Ahmed ^a   Chatelard, Patrick ^a   Cranga, Michel ^a   Van Dorsselaere, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE IRSN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTAINMENT WALLS; EULER EQUATIONS; HYDROGEN COMBUSTION; STEAM EXPLOSION;

CODES (STANDARDS); COMBUSTION; CONDENSATION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PRESSURIZED WATER REACTORS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TURBULENCE;

NUCLEAR REACTOR ACCIDENTS;

EID: 33845808212     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/ICONE14-89461     Document Type: Conference Paper

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