ABSTRACT

Proceedings of the Seminar of the Phebus-FP [Fission Product] Project, held at the Chateau Cadarache, St Paul-Lez-Durance, France, 5-7 June 1991.

Session I. Survey of LWR severe accident source term research. LWR severe accident source term research in Europe. Session II. State-of-the-art deduced from previous large experiments. Core degradation and fission product release. Phebus-CSD. Phebus severe fuel damage program: main experimental results and instrumentation behaviour. Session III. Core and FP-behaviour. Safety analysis needs and main phenomena to be studied. Phebus-FP. Objectives, test matrix and representativity of the Phebus-FP programme. Session IV. Analytical activities. Survey of source term codes. Panel discussion. Value of the Phebus-FP and related source term studies for the safety of LWRs. Index.