thermal hydraulics Simulations and Experiments for the Safety Assessment of MEtal cooled reactors

Objective

The thermal-hydraulics Simulations and Experiments for the Safety Assessment of Metal cooled reactor (SESAME) project supports the development of European liquid metal cooled reactors (ASTRID, ALFRED, MYRRHA, SEALER). The project focusses on pre-normative, fundamental, safety-related, challenges for these reactors with the following objectives:
• Development and validation of advanced numerical approaches for the design and safety evaluation of advanced reactors;
• Achievement of a new or extended validation base by creation of new reference data;
• Establishment of best practice guidelines, Verification & Validation methodologies, and uncertainty quantification methods for liquid metal fast reactor thermal hydraulics.
The SESAME project will improve the safety of liquid metal fast reactors by making available new safety related experimental results and improved numerical approaches. These will allow system designers to improve the safety relevant equipment leading to enhanced safety standards and culture.
Due to the fundamental and generic nature of SESAME, developments will be of relevance also for the safety assessment of contemporary light water reactors. By extending the knowledge basis, SESAME will allow the EU member states to develop robust safety policies. At the same time, SESAME will maintain and further develop the European experimental facilities and numerical tools.
The consortium of 25 partners provides American-European-wide scientific and technological excellence in liquid metal thermal hydraulics, as well as full alignment with ESNII and with NUGENIA where of interest. A close interaction with the European liquid metal cooled reactor design teams is foreseen involving them in the Senior Advisory Committee. They will actively advise on the content of the project and will be the prime end-users, ensuring their innovative reactor designs will reach highest safety standards using frontier scientific developments.

Field of science

/natural sciences/mathematics/applied mathematics/numerical analysis
/natural sciences/chemical sciences/inorganic chemistry/metals
/natural sciences/physical sciences/classical mechanics/fluid mechanics/fluid dynamics
/natural sciences/computer and information sciences/databases
/engineering and technology/environmental engineering/energy and fuels/nuclear energy
/natural sciences/physical sciences/classical mechanics/fluid mechanics/computational fluid dynamics
/engineering and technology/other engineering and technologies/nuclear engineering

Programme(s)

Topic(s)

NFRP-01-2014 - Improved safety design and operation of fission reactors

Call for proposal

NFRP-2014-2015
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Funding Scheme

RIA - Research and Innovation action

Coordinator

AGENZIA NAZIONALE PER LE NUOVE TECNOLOGIE, L'ENERGIA E LO SVILUPPO ECONOMICO SOSTENIBILE

Address

Lungotevere Grande Ammiraglio Thaon Di Revel 76
000196 Roma
Italy

Activity type

Research Organisations

EU contribution

€ 843 500