Occurrence of severe accidents, such as the Fukushima incident in 2011, is unlikely with a
probability of 10− 5 per reactor per year. However, such kinds of accidents have serious …

Hydrogen generation during the progression of an accident in a nuclear reactor and its
release into the containment comprise an important safety concern in the management of …

PANDA is a large-scale, multi-compartment, thermal-hydraulics facility located at the Paul
Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland and is operated for nuclear safety projects. PANDA is …

In the event of core degradation during a severe accident in water-cooled nuclear power
plants (NPPs), large amounts of hydrogen are generated that may be released into the …

The PANDA facility is a large scale, multicompartmental thermal hydraulic facility suited for
investigations related to the safety of current and advanced LWRs. The facility is …

The gas explosion in residential building has always been a highly concerned problem.
Explosions in homogeneous mixtures have been extensively studied. However, mixtures are …

The large-scale, multi-compartment PANDA facility (located at PSI in Switzerland) is one of
the state-of-the-art facilities which is continuously upgraded to progressively match the …

The paper reports the results of the assessment of the GOTHIC code using the data of four
basic tests with condensation performed in the PANDA large-scale facility. Three of these …

The recently concluded OECD SETH project included twenty-four experiments on basic
flows and gas transport and mixing driven by jets and plumes in two, large, connected …

Abstract The Stress Tests accomplished by the European nuclear plants assume to be a
complementary and comprehensive review of the safety of nuclear facilities, taking into …