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@INPROCEEDINGS{Gabrielli:1038867,
author = {Gabrielli, F. and Mascari, F. and Bersano, A. and Maccari,
P. and Ederli, S. and Cazado, M. E. and Sanchez-Espinoza, V.
H. and Di Giuli, M. and Bittan, J. and Bakouta, N. and
Malicki, M. and Lind, T. and Makarenko, M. and Yesipenko,
Yu. and Zhabin, O. and Gumenyuk, D. and Kelm, Stephan and
Reinecke, Ernst-Arndt and Vázquez-Rodríguez, Carlos and
Koch, M. K. and Krieger, J. and Stahlberg, G. and Jankowski,
T. and Garcia Martin, M. and Herranz, L. E. and Bentaib, A.
and Carenini, L. and de la Rosa Blul, J.-C. and Papera
Villacampa, O. and Kaliatka, A. and Valincius, M. and
Constantin, M. and Giannetti, F. and Sevon, T. and Groudev,
P. and Reinke, N.},
title = {{A}nalysis of postulated severe accidents in generic
integral {PWR} small modular reactors in the frame of the
{H}orizon {EURATOM} {SASPAM}-{SA} project},
reportid = {FZJ-2025-01683},
year = {2024},
abstract = {Currently, there is a growing interest in Europe in the
deployment of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs). One family of
SMR,the Integral Pressurised Water Reactor (iPWR), is ready
to be licensed as a new build. Despite the reinforcement of
the firstthree levels of the Defence-in-Depth (DiD), a sound
demonstration of iPWR ability to address Severe Accidents
(SA) andhandle offsite protecting countermeasures in case of
radiological releases should be carried out (DiD Levels 4
and 5). In thiscontext, the HORIZON-EUROPE project ‘Safety
Analysis of SMR with PAssive Mitigation strategies - Severe
Accidents’(SASPAM-SA), coordinated by ENEA and launched in
2022, aims at at investigating the applicability and
transfer of thecurrent reactor safety knowledge and know-how
for large Light Water Reactors (LWR) to iPWRs, in the view
of theEuropean licencing needs related to SA and Emergency
Planning Zone (EPZ) analyses.Elements not addressed in other
on-going iPWR initiatives are the pillars of the project: a)
identification and analysis ofpostulated SA scenarios; b)
identifying the RPV and containment conditions
characterizing iPWR SA scenarios that mightdiffer from
large-LWRs; c) investigating existing experimental database
for iPWRs and additional needs; c) capability ofEuropean and
non-European (but widely used in Europe) codes for SA and
radiological impact on-/off- site analyses iniPWRs.For
maximizing knowledge transferability and project impact, two
generic iPWR concepts are considered: ‘Design-1’ (60MWe)
with a submerged containment; ‘Design-2’ (300 MWe)
employing several passive systems and a dry
containment.These two iPWR designs incorporate the main
design features of the most promising designs ready for
deployment in theEuropean market.This paper focuses on the
activities of the ‘Input deck development and hypothetical
SA scenarios assessment’ WorkingPackage (WP) 2,
coordinated by KIT. It aims at assessing generic, but
representative, SA and CFD codes’ input decks,analyzing
the iPWRs’ behaviour in hypothetical SA conditions, and
investigating the codes’ capability to simulate the
dominantphenomena driving the scenarios. A set of Design
Basis Accident (DBA) and SA scenarios are postulated and
analysed. Itshould be noted that since no Probability Safety
Assessment (PS) considerations are done in the project
(generic designs areconsidered), the SA scenarios are
analysed in terms of severity and not of probability to
occur. Major outcomes will be theboundary conditions
influencing accident management strategies, like In-Vessel
Melt Retention and Filtered ContainmentVenting, and
quantitative bases to estimate EPZs.In the paper, the
results of the analyses of postulated DBA and SA scenarios
in both iPWR designs performed by means of SA(AC2, ASTEC,
MELCOR, MAAP, EDF-MAAP) and CFD (containmentFOAM, Ansys CFX)
codes are discussed. Thepreliminary results have shown that
SA codes (AC2, ASTEC, MELCOR, MAAP) can reproduce the main
thermal-hydraulicsand in-vessel degradation phenomena during
the scenarios, showing consistent values and trends in the
primary variables ofthe sequences analysed, i.e. main events
timing, hydrogen mass production, and corium mass.},
month = {May},
date = {2024-05-13},
organization = {ERMSAR2024, Stockholm (Sweden), 13 May
2024 - 16 May 2024},
cin = {IET-4},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IET-4-20191129},
pnm = {1422 - Beyond Design Basis Accidents and Emergency
Management (POF4-142)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-1422},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)1},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1038867},
}