Facility Details: VTT Ru transport facility

Organization / Localization: VTT
Country: Finland
Facility Status:
Focus area 2: Fission product chemistry, transport and remobilization behaviour in RCS (1)
Facility Description: Tubular flow reactor with 110 cm long and had two heating zones, each 40 cm long. The tube material in the reactor was high purity alumina.
Test Identification: Experiments enumerated from 1 to 6.
SA-Related Topics / Phenomena:
Measured Parameters: Number concentration, diameter and number size distribution, tellurium, electron binding energies for compound/ions identification (Ru, I, Cs)
Modelling: Temperature 1300-1700 K, humidity level and pressence or not of caesium iodide, and duration time Gas type (air, air+NO2, air+N2O, air+HNO3)
Simulation Code: Not found
Experimental Research Program: ATR-2 (Impact of Aerosols on the Transport of Ruthenium) experimental programme. The financial support of SAFIR 2018
Link to PIRT: ST-15, ST-25
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References: [1] T. Kärkelä et al., Ruthenium transport in an RCS with airborne CsI,
Progress in Nuclear Energy, 99, 38-48, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pnucene.2017.04.019.
[2] I. Kajan et al., Effect of nitrogen compounds on transport of ruthenium through the RCS, Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 311, 2097-2109, 2017, DOI: 10.1007/s10967-017-5172-7
[3] T. Kärkelä et al., Experiments on the Behaviour of Ruthenium in Air Ingress Accidents - Final Report. VTT research report VTT-R-01252-07., 2017.
Contributed By: L. Cantrel




Implemented as part of the Seaknot EU funded project (HORIZON-EURATOM-2021-NRT-01 under Grant Agreement No. 101060327) - WP2.6 UNIPI (2024-2026)