ERMSAR 2008 (September 2008, Nesseber, Bulgaria)

The third European Review Meeting on Severe Accident Research (ERMSAR 2008) will be held on 23rd – 25th September 2008 in Nesseber, Bulgaria. ERMSAR 2008 is hosted by the Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Bulgarian Academy of Science.

For more information please view the Second Announcement. For submission of papers, please refer to the Editorial Instructions.

For registering to ERMSAR 2008, here is the Registration Form.

 

Course of “Nuclear Reactor Severe Accident Analysis:

Applications and Management Guidelines”

The severe accident research network SARNET - in collaboration with the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) (www.nea.fr) - is sponsoring a new one-week Short Course entitled “Nuclear Reactor Severe Accident Analysis – Applications and Management Guidelines”. This course is a part of the Excellence Spreading activities of SARNET, which are coordinated by KTH.

Budapest, HUNGARY – April 7-11, 2008

Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Institute of Nuclear Techniques (BME NTI), Hungary

For more information and registration to the course click here.

 

 13th International QUENCH Workshop

The 13th International QUENCH Workshop will be held at the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (FZK) from 20th November to 22nd November. Detailed information may be found on the QUENCH web site www.fzk.de/quench

Begin:          20/11/2007         09:00

End:             22/11/2007         17:00

Location:      Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (FZK) 

 

ERMSAR 2007 (June 2007, Karlsruhe)

The second European Review Meeting on Severe Accident Research (ERMSAR 2007) will be held on 12th – 14th June 2007 in Karlsruhe, Germany.
ERMSAR 2007 is hosted by the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH (FZK).

For more information view the Final Announcement.

The editorial instructions for papers may be found here.

The final programme is here available.

Full Papers and Presentations

 

COURSE ON SEVERE ACCIDENT PROGRESSION

In the frame of SARNET, a training course on Severe Accident Progression is proposed. This education organized by IRSN will allow the different participants to catch the order of magnitude of physical phenomena occurring during core melt on a reactor of different types (PWR, BWR, VVER, CANDU and Generation III reactors) with corresponding data and uncertainties.

The program proposed by IRSN offers the opportunity to enhance knowledge of all people working in the nuclear safety field having to intervene in case of severe accident occurring on nuclear reactor with the aim to provide diagnosis and prognosis on the accident evolution and consequently to allow the authorities to take adapted measures to protect the populations, whatever their position in the nuclear field management, safety authorities, technical support to safety authorities, utilities or designers.

Lecturers are Nuclear Safety experts coming from different countries with large skills and knowledge on the different types of nuclear reactors and on the progression of a severe accident.

We are pleased to inform you that the first session that will be focused on PWR and BWR will be held from 12th March to 16th March 2007 at the Chateau de CADARACHE in France. The second session foreseen at the end of 2007 (or beginning 2008) will deal with VVER and CANDU, the third one foreseen in 2008 will deal with Generation III reactors.

Please find herewith attached three files relative to this training course:

- Course programme and objectives (still draft)

- Shorter presentation in one single page

- Registration form in WORD format (Note that the second page of this registration form contains the legal conditions of sale: sorry it is French).

 

COURSE ON SEVERE ACCIDENT PHENOMENOLOGY (January 2006)

A course focusing on raising the competence level of the students and researchers engaged in severe accident research will be organized in January 2006. The course will be developed on the phenomenology of the various areas of severe accident phenomenology. This would include topics such as the early and late phases of in-vessel core degradation, fission product release, aerosol transport, vessel failure, DCH, hydrogen combustion and detonation, MCCI, containment loading etc. The teaching will not be a survey but an in-depth treatment so that the students and researchers will be able to (a) understand (b) develop the methodology in the topics further and (c) use analysis tools (e.g. ASTEC) more effectively. Click here for more information.

The announcement for the Severe Accident Phenomenology Short Course is to be found here.

Detailed information on registration, the schedule of the course, application for a visit to CEA Cadarache Center and an application for grants may be found here.

 

ERMSAR 2005 (November 2005, Aix-en-Provence)  

The 1st European Review Meeting on Several Accidents was held in Aix-en-Provence, 14-16 November 2005. This meeting enabled a review of the SARNET activities carried out during the first 18 months of the project. Main topics of the network were covered such as corium, containment, source term, ASTEC codes, PSA2 methodologies and knowledge management. This meeting was a large success regarding the participation, the quality of presentations, the discussions and the dissemination of knowledge. About 120 specialists on power plant severe accidents from 50 organisations attended the meeting over which 12 invited organisations (4 utilities, 4 safety organisations and 4 research organisations not involved in the activities of the network). The final discussion enabled to identify needs and wishes to be taken into account in the definition of the future work plan of the network. The 2nd ERMSAR review meeting is already planned mid 2007.

Information on the final programme, the participants and the session papers:

- Final programme
- List of participants
- Presented papers