SADD - Severe accident database directory

DataBase Source Term - Focus area 2: Fission product chemistry, transport and remobilization behaviour in RCS (1)

Facility Name	Test Identification	Measured Parameters	Modelling	Simulation Code	Experimental Research Program	Country
VERCORS	VERCORS 1 to 6; VERCORS RT1 to RT4, RT6 to RT8; VERCORS HT1 to HT3	Fuel temperature, FP and transuranic compounds by gamma spectrometry and chemical analysis	Fuel burnup, max fuel temperature (1860-1350 °) and duration, nature and initial state of the fuel, atmosphere (H2O+H2, H2, H2O), steam flow rate, hydrogen flowrate	MAAP4 ASTEC/ELSA ASTEC/SOPHAEROS ALCYONE	VERCORS HT experimental programme	France
References: [1] Ducros et al. Synthesis of the VERCORS experimental programme: Separate-effect experiments on Fission Product release, in support of the PHEBUS-FP programme. Annals Nuclear Energy 61 (2013) 75–87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2013.02.033 [2] P. Malgouyres et al., The VERCORS HT facility for studies up to molten fuel conditions. In: Proceedings of the European Working Group Hot Laboratory and Remote Handling Meeting, Windscale, UK, 1998 [3] E. Beuzet et al., Ruthenium release modelling in air and steam atmospheres under severe accident conditions using the MAAP4 code, Nuclear Engineering and Design, 246, 157-162, 2012, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nucengdes.2011.08.025 IP/Copyright Situation: partially published Link to PIRT: ST12, ST13

Release and Transport of FPs at high temperature