AMHYCO

Nuclear power plants are designed to minimise the risk of radiological releases. In addition, severe accident management guidelines (SAMGs) have been developed and implemented to provide operators with a systematic guidance on mitigatory actions. Building on these guidelines, the EU-funded AMHYCO project will consider practical issues to further reduce (as much as possible) the threat posed by combustion of gases generated during accidents on containment integrity. Specifically, it will improve the SAMGs for both in-vessel and ex-vessel phases using numerical and experimental results. It will also experimentally study the phenomena that are difficult to predict numerically (such as H2/CO/H20 distribution and combustion). A third goal will be to improve the predictability of the numerical tools used for explosion hazard evaluation.

Duration: 1 October 2020 - 30 September 2024