Severe accident research activities at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR)
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P. Wilhelm
Abstract
In the frame of the nuclear safety research program of the Helmholtz Association HZDR performs fundamental and applied research to assess and to reduce the risks related to the nuclear fuel cycle and the production of electricity in nuclear power plants. One of the research topics focuses on the safety aspects of current and future reactor designs. This includes the development and application of methods for analyses of transients and postulated accidents, covering the whole spectrum from normal operation till severe accident sequences including core degradation. This paper gives an overview of the severe accident research activities at the Reactor Safety Division at the Institute of Resource Ecology.
Kurzfassung
Im Rahmen des Programms Nukleare Sicherheitsforschung der Helmholtz Gemeinschaft wird am HZDR Grundlagenforschung und angewandte Forschung mit dem Ziel betrieben, die Risiken im Kernbrennstoffkreislauf und beim Betrieb von Kernkraftwerken zu bewerten und zu reduzieren. Ein Schwerpunkt der Forschungsaktivitäten liegt auf den Sicherheitsaspekten von laufenden und im Bau befindlichen Reaktoranlagen. Dies beinhaltet auch die Entwicklung und Anwendung von Berechnungsmethoden für Transienten und postulierte Störfälle, wobei der gesamte Bereich vom Normalbetrieb bis zu schweren Störfällen mit Kernschmelze abgedeckt wird. Die Forschungsaktivitäten der Abteilung Reaktorsicherheit im Institut für Ressourcenökologie auf dem Gebiet der schweren Störfälle werden in diesem Beitrag vorgestellt.
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- Contents/Inhalt
- Contents
- Summaries/Kurzfassungen
- Summaries
- Editorial
- Selected contributions from 1th Sino-German Symposium on Fundamentals of Advanced Nuclear Safety Technology
- Technical Contributions/Fachbeiträge
- Scientific codes developed and used at GRS – Nuclear simulation chain
- Challenges on innovations of newly-developed safety analysis codes
- Validation of system codes for plant application on selected experiments
- Progress of Experimental Research on Nuclear Safety in NPIC
- Severe accident research activities at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR)
- THAI experimental programme for containment safety assessment under severe accident conditions
- A spray cooling technique for spent fuel assembly stored in pool
- KIT multi-physics tools for the analysis of design and beyond design basis accidents of light water reactors
- Coupled neutronics/thermal-hydraulics and safety characteristics of liquid-fueled Molten Salt Reactors
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- Validation of the ATHLET-SC code by trans-critical transient data
- Qualification of CFD-models for multiphase flows
- The reactor dynamics code DYN3D
- Critical flow phenomena and modeling in advanced nuclear safety technology
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- Safety and security aspects in design of digital safety I&C in nuclear power plants
- Thermohydraulic safety issues for liquid metal cooled systems
- Design and safety analysis of the helium cooled solid breeder blanket for CFETR
- Qualification of pebble fuel for HTGRs
- High temperature reactors for cogeneration applications
