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DataBase Ex-Vessel - Focus area 3: Molten corium concrete interaction and corium spreading (MCCIS) (1)

Facility Name	Test Identification	Measured Parameters	Modelling	Simulation Code	Experimental Research Program	Country
BETA	20 large scale experiments: 300 – 600 kg melt mass, different heating rates, different types of concrete and melts	Erosion progression, temperatures withing metallic fraction, off-gas rate and composition	conrete type, volumetric power	WECSL, CORCON, Interanational Standard Problems, e.g. for tests V2.1 and V3.2	FZK and BMFT
References: [1] Alsmeyer, et al., “BETA experimental results on Melt/Concrete interaction”, CSNI Specialists' Meeting on Core Debris-Concrete Interactions, EPRI-NP-5054-SR, pp. 2-2 and 2-17, Feb. 1987 [2] H. Alsmeyer, “BETA Experiments in Verification of the Wechsl Code: Experimental Results on the Melt-Concrete Interaction”, Nuclear Engineering and Design 103, pp. 115-125, 1987 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0029549387902895 IP/Copyright Situation: Link to PIRT: Potential feedback of the induction process on the shape of the liquid melt at high heating power

2D-MCCI, metallic melt