G. Azarian

TL;DR: In this paper, a parallel effort is devoted to model developments for severe accident (SA) computer codes, and these codes are finally used for plant calculations to assess SA code capabilities and to apply results produced in this project to evaluate their consequences on key SA sequences occurring in different plants such as PWR-1300, BWR, VVER-1000, EPR and in the TMI-2 accident.

TL;DR: The objectives of the SARNET network of excellence are to define and work on common research programs in the field of severe accidents in Gen. II-III nuclear power plants and to further develop com ...

TL;DR: The objectives of the SARNET network of excellence are to define and work on common research programs in the field of severe accidents in Gen. II-III nuclear power plants and to further develop com...

TL;DR: The EPR design includes provisions to cope with severe accidents including core melt situations: - Situations that would lead to large early releases such as containment bypass, high reactivity accidents, high pressure core melt or global hydrogen detonation have to be prevented.

TL;DR: In this article, the CSC project focused on two key phenomena for external core-catchers efficiency, reliability and safety: spreading and coolability, and provided a lot of results which now constitute a large database and which enabled the qualification of computer codes.