Thermal-Hydraulic Investigations for Safety Related Tasks

The session „Thermal-Hydraulic Investigations for Safety Related Tasks“ was chaired by Thomas Höhne (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf ).
The first presentation on „Comparative analysis of a LOCA for a German PWR with ASTEC and ATHLET-CD“, from Nils Reinke (Co-authors: H.-W. Chan, M. Sonnenkalb, all from the Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit (GRS) mbH, Köln) presented calculations with the German-French severe accident integral code ASTEC for the early phase of the accident, thereby focusing on thermal-hydraulics mainly. He explained that the purpose of this work was mainly to assess the ASTEC code behavior in modeling thermal-hydraulics in the coolant circuit in the early phase of a hypothetical severe accident. This is in particular interesting, since the early phase of the accident determines core heat-up and the subsequent core degradation phase. A comparison is done versus the more mechanistic code system ATHLET-CD/COCOSYS, developed at GRS, too.