Overview of the NURESAFE European Project

B. Chanaron (1)

1 CEA-DES (ex-DEN) - CEA-Direction des Energies (ex-Direction de l'Energie Nucléaire)

Numerical simulation tools used for the design and safety evaluation of nuclear power plants (NPP) are under continuous development, improvement and validation. In this field, a key challenge is the development and consolidation of integrated simulation platforms to support safety analysis and future fission reactor designs. These simulation platforms must integrate the dynamic 3D coupling of the codes simulating the different physics of reactor problems into a common multi-physic simulation scheme in order to enhance the prediction capability of the computations used for safety demonstration of the current light water reactors (LWR) nuclear power plants and the design of innovative LWR.

Domains: Nuclear Theory [nucl-th]; Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex]

B. Chanaron. Overview of the NURESAFE European Project. Nuclear Engineering and Design, 2017, 321, pp.1-7. ⟨10.1016/j.nucengdes.2017.09.001⟩. ⟨cea-02389152⟩