B4C oxidation modelling in severe accident codes: Applications to PHEBUS and QUENCH experiments

Progress in Nuclear Energy

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 37-45

  Repetto, G ^a   De Luze, O ^a   Seiler, N ^a   Trambauer, K ^b   Austregesilo, H ^b   Birchley, J ^c   Ederli, S ^d   Lamy, J S ^e   Maliverney, B ^e   Drath, T ^f   Hollands, T ^f  

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

^b GESELLSCHAFT FÜR ANLAGEN UND REAKTORSICHERHEIT GRS MBH   (Germany)

^c PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d ENEA   (Italy)

^e EDF R AND D   (France)

^f RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODE DEVELOPMENT; CODE SIMULATION; CORE DEGRADATION; EUROPEAN UNION; EXPERIMENTAL VALUES; FUEL BUNDLE; FUEL RODS; GERMANY; HYDROGEN GENERATIONS; IN-DEPTH UNDERSTANDING; LIQUID MIXTURE; MAIN EFFECT; MATERIAL BEHAVIOUR; NEUTRON ABSORBER MATERIAL; OXIDATION MODEL; SEVERE ACCIDENT; SEVERE ACCIDENT CODES; SOURCE TERMS; TEMPERATURE RANGE; TOTAL CARBON;

ACCIDENTS; BOILING WATER REACTORS; BORON; BORON CARBIDE; DEGRADATION; EXPERIMENTS; FISSION PRODUCTS; FUELS; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; METAL MELTING; MOLTEN MATERIALS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR INDUSTRY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; OXIDATION; PILES; PRESSURIZED WATER REACTORS; SIMULATED ANNEALING; SIMULATORS; SMALL NUCLEAR REACTORS; STAINLESS STEEL;

CONTROL RODS;

EID: 70450225477     PISSN: 01491970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnucene.2009.09.017     Document Type: Article

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