Facility Details: PASSAM Project

Organization / Localization: Coordinated by IRSN involved nine partners from six countries: IRSN, EDF and university of Lorraine (France); CIEMAT and CSIC (Spain); PSI (Switzerland); RSE (Italy); VTT (Finland) and AREVA GmbH (Germany).
Facility Description: Water scrubber, sand bed filters plus metallic pre-filters, high pressure sprays, electrostatic precipitators, acoustic agglomerators and, advanced zeolites and combined wet-dry filtration systems
SA-Related Topics / Phenomena: Phenomena that might enhance source term mitigation
Measured Parameters: It depends on each experiment configuration
Modelling: It depends on each experiment configuration
Simulation Code: ASTEC
Experimental Research Program: EUR PASSAM (Passive and Active Systems on Severe Accident source term Mitigation) Project (2013-2016)
Link to PIRT: ST54-ST55
References: [1] Passive and Active Systems on Severe Accident source term Mitigation | PASSAM | Projet | Fiche descriptive | FP7 | CORDIS | Commission européenne
[2] T. Albiol et al., Main results of the European PASSAM project on severe accident source term mitigation,
Annals of Nuclear Energy, 116, 42-56, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2018.02.024
IP/Copyright Situation: Some results are published




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