SASPAM-SA WP2: iPWR scenarios analyses - Results of the partners

The HORIZON-EURATOM SASPAM-SA project, coordinated by ENEA (Italy), was launched in 2022 aiming at filling this gap and at transferring the knowledge and know-how of large LWR to integral PWRs (iPWRs) in view of the European licensing needs with respect to Severe Accident (SA) and Emergency Planning Zone (EPZ). One of the goals of the project is the evaluation of the capabilities of state-of-art European and non-European integral codes to properly predict the key phenomena occurring in postulated SA scenarios in two generic (but representative) iPWRs. Note that such generic reactor concepts include the main iPWR design features considered in the most promising designs in the European market. Having this in mind, a large working activity has been performed in the frame of the WP2 (SCENARIO) by the SASPAM-SA partners aiming at the assessment of the datasets of the most used integral codes in Europe (ASTEC, MELCOR, AC2, EDF-MAAP, and MAAP) for the generic iPWRs considered in the project, the postulation of Design Basis Accident (DBA) and SA scenarios for such systems, and the corresponding calculation campaign. Furthermore, the ANSYS CFX and the containmentFOAM models have been assessed and transient analyses have been performed. The current report collects the results of the analyses of the postulated DBA and SA scenarios in the iPW DEsign-1 and Design-2 performed by the partners. The ASTEC, MELCOR, AC2, EDF-MAAP, MAAP, and ANSYS-CFX (CFD) results are collected with respect of key figure-of-merits.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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SASPAM-SA WP2: iPWR scenarios analyses - Results of the partners

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SASPAM-SA WP2: iPWR scenarios analyses - Results of the partners

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The HORIZON-EURATOM SASPAM-SA project, coordinated by ENEA (Italy), was launched in 2022 aiming at filling this gap and at transferring the knowledge and know-how of large LWR to integral PWRs (iPWRs) in view of the European licensing needs with respect to Severe Accident (SA) and Emergency Planning Zone (EPZ). One of the goals of the project is the evaluation of the capabilities of state-of-art European and non-European integral codes to properly predict the key phenomena occurring in postulated SA scenarios in two generic (but representative) iPWRs. Note that such generic reactor concepts include the main iPWR design features considered in the most promising designs in the European market. Having this in mind, a large working activity has been performed in the frame of the WP2 (SCENARIO) by the SASPAM-SA partners aiming at the assessment of the datasets of the most used integral codes in Europe (ASTEC, MELCOR, AC2, EDF-MAAP, and MAAP) for the generic iPWRs considered in the project, the postulation of Design Basis Accident (DBA) and SA scenarios for such systems, and the corresponding calculation campaign. Furthermore, the ANSYS CFX and the containmentFOAM models have been assessed and transient analyses have been performed. The current report collects the results of the analyses of the postulated DBA and SA scenarios in the iPW DEsign-1 and Design-2 performed by the partners. The ASTEC, MELCOR, AC2, EDF-MAAP, MAAP, and ANSYS-CFX (CFD) results are collected with respect of key figure-of-merits.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE), National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (IT), Paul Scherrer Institute (CH), State Scientific and Technical Library of Ukraine (UA), Lithuanian Energy Institute (LT), Électricité de France (France) (FR), Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (ES), Sapienza University of Rome (IT)
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