Picture of the ASNR MIDI facility 

The Pool during Loss of Cooling Accident (POLCA) project was launched in April 2024 and is planned to last four years. It is operated by the French Autorité de Sûre...

Multi-compartment THAI+ test facility, Becker Technologies GmbH.

In the wake of the NEA THAI project, conducted in three phases from 2007 until 2019, a new project, THAI Experiments on Mitigation m...

PKL facility. Photo: FRAMATOME, Germany

The Primärkreislauf-Versuchsanlage (Primary Coolant Loop Test Facility [PKL]) is a facility owned and operated by Framatome GmbH (formerly AREVA NP) in Erlange...

Left: Test facility for qualification of melt spreading tests. Photo: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL).
Right: Example of corium melt pouring for a melt spreading preparatory test. Photo: Argonne Nat...

Photo: RBHT Test Facility. US NRC.

Modelling reactor core behaviour under accident conditions with delayed re-introduction of cooling water (commonly referred to as reflood) is a challenge for safety...

Studsvik’s pool facility for storage and inspection of SMILE materials, left: 29 tonnes transportation flask, three pools each about 8 meters deep; and right: pool-in-pool for cutting and inspections...

JAEA  High-temperature Engineering Test Reactor. Photo: Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA)

The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Task Group on Advanced Reactor Experimental Faci...

Left: Scheme of Studsvik LOCA test facility Right: Microstructure of fragmented nuclear fuel, Studsvik

End state of debris in the units 1-3 of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings. Photo: Japan Atomic Energy Agency

The Preparatory Study on Analysis of Fuel D...

A cabinet containing copper bus before the HEAF test (left) and after the test(right). Source: NRC

Massive electrical discharges, referred to as high energy arcing faults (HEAF), have occurred in nuc...