During a severe accident in nuclear reactors, the core may melt and relocate into the lower
head. The decay power in the accumulated melt pool will threaten the integrity of the reactor …

In-vessel melt retention has drawn renewed concern as an important severe accident
management measure in existing and advanced light water reactors. Despite numerous …

The thermophysical behaviour of a corium pool in reactor pressure vessel of a pressurised
water reactor is of principal importance for the prediction of core melt down accident …

This study investigates heat transfer characters of a volumetrically heated melt pool in LWR
lower plenum. Experimental restrictions on prediction reliability are discussed. These …

The development of a corium pool in the lower head and its behavior is still a critical issue
and is of great importance to assess the severe accident progression consequences to …

Abstract The LIVE-L4 and LIVE-L5L experiments investigated the thermal-hydraulic
behavior of the corium pool in the reactor pressure vessel lower head with the three …

Several mechanism-based codes for severe accident (SA) analysis are developed based on
mechanistic models concerning specific phenomena or processes during reactor SAs. The …

In 1991 the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency Committee on Safety of Nuclear Installations
(NEA/CSNI) published the first State-of-the-Art Report (SOAR) on In-Vessel Core …

In 1991 the CSNI published the first State-of-the-Art Report on In-Vessel Core Degradation,
which was updated to 1995 under the EC 3rd Framework programme. These covered …

The problem of phase-changing with heat and mass transfer has aroused widespread
interest and imposed new challenges, especially in understanding the non-eutectic phase …