Facility Details: PRELUDE-PEARL

Organization / Localization: IRSN
Country: France
SA-Related Topics / Phenomena: consequences of water reflooding of a severely damaged reactor core, where a large part of the core and formed debris bed
Measured Parameters: reflooding tests at a larger scale (bed of 500 mm diameter and 500 mm in height) and at high pressure (up to 10 bars)
Experimental Research Program: PEARL Program
References: [1] Repetto, G., Garcin, T., Eymery, S., Fichot, F. 2011. Experimental program on debris reflooding (PEARL) – Results on PRELUDE facility, Proc. NURETH-14, Toronto, Canada, 25-30 September. [2] Repetto, G., Garcin, T., Eymery, S., 2013. New insights in the thermal hydraulics behaviour of a high temperature debris bed during reflooding, Proc. NURETH-15, Pisa, Italy, 12-17 May. [3] Repetto, G., Chikhi, N., Fichot, F., 2013. Main outcomes on debris bed cooling from PRELUDE experiments, Proc. ERMSAR 2013, Avignon, 02 – 04 October. [4] Chikhi, N., Garcin, T., Foubert, F., Repetto, G., Eymery, S., March, P., Fichot, F., 2015. Preliminary results on the PEARL experimental program on debris bed reflooding, Proc. ERMSAR2015, Marseille, France, 24-26 March.[5] Chikhi, N., Garcin, T., Foubert, F, March, P. Fichot, F., 2015. First experimental results of large scale debris bed reflood tests in the PEARL facility, 16th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH-16), Chicago, IL, USA, 30 August - 4 September. [6] Mutelle, H., Fichot, F., Piar, L., Repetto, G., 2017. Reflooding of large scale debris bed with bypass: effect of pressure and water flowrate. 17th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH-17), Xi’an, Shaanxi, China, 3-8 September.
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