Large-scale COPRA experiments were performed to investigate the natural convection heat
transfer in melt pools for the in-vessel retention during severe accidents in Chinese large …

The development of a corium pool in the lower head and its behaviour is still a critical issue.
This concerns, in general, the understanding of a severe accident with core melting, its …

The LIVE test program investigates in-vessel melt pool behaviour and cooling strategies for
in-vessel corium retention during severe accidents in LWRs. The main part of the LIVE …

In-vessel retention (IVR) has been proposed as an effective mitigation strategy during
severe accidents in pressurized water reactors (PWRs). To help understand better the …

A liquid metal layer heated from bottom and cooled from both side and top can be
encountered in industrial applications. A special interest is from safety design of advanced …

The LIVE-L4 test was conducted to investigate the transient and steady state behavior of the
molten pool and the crust influenced by different heat generation rates. The main purpose of …

Using the source-based SIMPLE algorithm based on a fixed grid method, a two-dimensional
numerical model for a convection-diffusion controlled mushy region phase-change problem …

Motivated by efficient assessment of the in-vessel retention (IVR) strategy employed in some
designs of light water reactors, a lumped-parameter code named as transIVR was …

In-vessel retention (IVR) in the manner of external reactor vessel cooling (ERVC) is an
important severe accident mitigation strategy, which has been applied to some advanced …

Abstract The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident showed a significant effect on
the environment due to the release of a large amount of radioactive material. To prevent the …