Corium Behaviour Research at CEA Cadarache: The PLINIUS prototypic corium experimental platform; International Conference Nuclear Energy for New Europe 2002, Kranjska (original) (raw)

In the hypothetical case of a Light Water Reactor severe accident, the reactor core could melt and form with structure materials, and eventually concrete, a complex mixture called corium. The knowledge of corium behaviour is one of the key to increase the safety of the nuclear reactors. In the framework of severe accident studies, CEA has undertaken for many years a large R&D program devoted to this topic. At CEA-Cadarache, a specific platform, called PLINIUS, has been developed and is dedicated to studies of prototypic corium (i.e. with uranium dioxide). In this paper, the PLINIUS platform four facilities and the experiments on corium behaviour are described.

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