QUENCH Programme

Agenda 2002

8th International QUENCH Workshop

Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe October 29-31, 2002

 

 

Meeting Location:

Fortbildungszentrum für Technik und Umwelt (FTU), Room 236

Tuesday

8:00/10/20

Pick-up at the hotels (Eden/Acora/Kübler)

 

8:40

REGISTRATION

 

9.00

Welcome

J. Knebel, FZK

9.15

Introduction and organisational information

M. Steinbrück, FZK

 

INVITED LECTURE (Chairman: M. Steinbrück)

 

9.20

IRSN views on in-vessel reflooding issues

J.-P. Van Dorsselaere, IRSN

10.00

Overview on COLOSS results

B. Adroguer, IRSN

10:30

Coffee break

 

 

QUENCH Programm (Chairman: M. Steinbrück)

 

11.00

Status of the QUENCH Program and its part in the EU sponsored LACOMERA Project

A. Miassoedov, FZK

11.30

Main Results of the QUENCH-09 Bundle Test (in Comparison with QUENCH-07)

L. Sepold, FZK

12.00

Results of Metallographic Post-test Examination of the QUENCH-07 Bundle

G. Schanz, FZK

12.30

Lunch

 

13.30

Influence of the temperature gradient along the legs of the thermocouples on their reading

J. Stuckert, FZK

14.00

Calculations for QUENCH-09 with SCDAP/RELAP5

Ch. Homann, FZK

 

EXPERIMENTS (Chairman: A. Miassoedov)

 

14:30

B4C control rod degradation at high temperatures

M. Steinbrück, FZK

15:00

Coffee break

 

15.30

Escape of ruthenium with high temperature air

L. Matus, AEKI

15.50

Zircaloy-Fuel Interactions at high Temperatures: some preliminary results from the COLOSS programme

D. Bottomley, ITU

16.10

Degradation of the cladding oxide layer under steam starvation conditions

J. Stuckert, FZK

17.00

Bus transfer to the hotels

 

Wednesday

8:20/30/40

Pick-up at the hotels (Eden/Acora/Kübler)

 

 

CODE APPLICATION (Chairman: W. Hering)

 

9.00

Final Summary of ISP-45 (QUENCH-06)

W. Hering, FZK

9.30

ISP-46 (Phebus FPT1) : Status October 2002

T. Haste, IRSN

10.00

Assessment of RELAP/SCDAPSIM Using Phebus ISP

J. Hohorst, ISS

10:30

Coffee break

 

10.50

Assessment of RELAP/SCDAPSIM Using Quench

C. Allison, ISS

11.20

ATHLET-CD Validation based on Post-test Calculations of QUENCH-Experiments

N. Reinke, RUB

11.40

Posttest Calculation of QUENCH07 with ATHLET-CD, Verification of B4C Oxidation Model

K. Trambauer, MPI

12.00

Calculation of QUENCH-07 with MAAP4

S. Marguet, EdF

12.20

Quench-03 Test Calculation with MELCOR Code

J. Duspiva, NRI

12.40

Lunch

 

 

INVITED LECTURE

 

13.30

Molten Fuel Moderator Interaction program at AECL

B. Sanderson, AECL

14.15

Excursion to Baden-Baden, Reception by FZK

M. Heck, FZK

ca. 21:00

Bus transfer to the hotels

 

Thursday

8:20/30/40

Pick-up at the hotels (Eden/Acora/Kübler)

 

 

MODELLING (Chairman: T. Haste)

 

9:00

Detailed investigation of heat release during Zr oxidation using SVECHA/QUENCH code

A. Palagin, IBRAE

9:30

Current status of the single-rod SVECHA/QUENCH code

A. Boldyrev, IBRAE

10:00

ICARE2 modelling of dissolution of irradiated UO2 by molten Zircaloy (module UZRL)

L. Belovsky, ALIAS CZ

10:30

Coffee break

 

 

B4C OXIDATION (Chairman: G. Schanz)

 

11:00

B4C oxidation at high temperatures (BOX test results)

M. Steinbrück, FZK

11:30

B4C oxidation tests in TG

W. Krauss, FZK

12:00

VERDI tests on B4C oxidation (to be confirmed)

IRSN

12:30

Lunch

 

13:30

Modelling of boron carbide oxidation and boric acid formation

H. Steiner, FZK

14:00

Oxidation of B4C by steam at high temperatures (first modelling results)

A. Berdyshev, IBRAE

14:30

Closure of the Workshop

M. Steinbrück, FZK

15:00

Bus transfer to the hotels and Karlsruhe train station