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OECD NEA meeting focuses on irradiation experiments
Members of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency’s Second Framework for Irradiation Experiments (FIDES-II) joint undertaking gathered from September 29 to October 3 in Ketchum, Idaho, for the technical advisory group and governing board meetings hosted by Idaho National Laboratory. The FIDES-II Framework aims to ensure and foster competences in experimental nuclear fuel and structural materials in-reactor experiments through a diverse set of Joint Experimental Programs (JEEPs).
Theo G. Theofanous, Hongfei Yan, Farouk Eltawila
Nuclear Technology | Volume 101 | Number 3 | March 1993 | Pages 299-331
Technical Paper | Severe Accident Technology / Nuclear Reactor Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT93-A34792
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An integrated analysis of Mark-I liner attack in a postulated core-melt accident is presented. The approach consists of the mechanistic treatment of the sequence of physical phenomena that lead to liner contact by corium debris and their coupling through a probabilistic framework that allows representation of uncertainties. A physically consistent treatment in each sequence is emphasized, but qualitatively different scenarios to represent the range of behavior due to model uncertainties are allowed. The results are presented in a format that allows their direct use in probabilistic risk assessments; in particular, expert opinion is incorporated by a new methodological approach that involves expert review of, and comment on, a fully documented study all under one cover. The study itself is presented in three parts here; the expert inputs can be found in NUREG/CR-5423.