Facility Details: FARO (melt spreading)

Description: Transient tests, using high-temperature prototypic melts (in-vessel oxide composition without added concrete) generated in FARO tungsten inductive melt generator, discharged and spread into several-meter long dry or wet channels
Organization / Localization: JRC Ispra
SPREADING- (SG) (1)
Test Identification: FARO L25 (dry), FARO L36 (wet)
SA-Related Topics / Phenomena: 1D-spreading tests, dry and into water
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Simulation Code: CORFLOW THEMA
Experimental Research Program: FARO LWR (EU)
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References: D. Magallon, The FARO program recent results and synthesis," in Proceedings of CSARP Meeting, Bethesda (USA), (Bethesda, Md), 1997.

R. Silverii, D. Magallon; “FARO LWR Programme, Test L26-S Data Report”, Technical Note, EU 4th FWP, EXV-CSC(98)-D007

D. Magallon, I. Huhtiniemi, and H. Hohmann “Lessons Learnt from FARO/TERMOS Corium Melt Quenching Experiments”, Nuclear Engineering and Design 189, pp. 223-238, 1999
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002954939800274X

Tromm, W., Foit, J. J., Magallon, D., “Dry and wet spreading experiments with prototypic material at the FARO facility and theoretical analysis”, Proceedings of the OECD Workshop on Ex-Vessel Debris Coolability, FZKA 6475, pp. 178-188, 2000
https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/270047463
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