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Exhibit 1 Pages 429 to 441, Need for Experimental Programmes on LOCA Issues Using High Burn-Up & MOX Fuels from NUREG/CP-0176 Proceedings of the Nuclear Safety Research Conference

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NUREG/CP-0176 Proceedings of the Nuclear Safety Research Conference Held at Marriott Hotel at Metro Center Washington, DC October 22-24, 2001 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research Proceedings prepared by Brookhaven National Laboratory

NUREG/CP-0176 Proceedings of the Nuclear Safety Research Conference Held at Marriott Hotel at Metro Center Washington, DC October 22-24, 2001 Manuscript Completed: March 2002 Date Published: May 2002 Compiled by: Susan Monteleone, Meeting Coordinator S. Nesmith, NRC Project Manager Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001 Proceedings prepared by Brookhaven National Laboratory

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ABSTRACT T iiza ivpJUIi UuIIiaIm. Cola utI duumaif 6-iety fnesbektu I uLmerenm titw die Marnon al metro venter Hotel in Washington, DC., October 22-24, 2001. The papers for the Plenary Sessions are included first, followed by the papers presented in each of the five breakout sessions conducted over the course of the three days. They describe progress and results of programs in nuclear safety research conducted in this country and abroad. Foreign participation in the meeting included papers presented by researchers from Finland, France, Japan, and Russia.

The titles of the papers and the names of the authors have been updated and may differ from those that appeared In the final program of the meeting.

An asterisk (') in lieu of a page number indicates the transcript of remarks or the final paper was not available in time to be included herein.

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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NUCLEAR SAFETY RESEARCH CONFERENCE OCTOBER22-24,2001 Contents Abstract.

iii Registered Attendees.............................................................

xi PLENARY SESSIONS - MONDAY, OCTOBER 22,2001 Opening Remarks I

A. Thadani, Director, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)

Keynote Speech "Enhancing the NRC's Capacity to Meet New Regulatory Challenges".

5 Hon. R. Meserve, Chairman, NRC (RES/NRC)

Recent Accomplishments.

13 R. Zimmennan, Deputy Director Expert Panel: "Overview of International/U.S. Research Programs" C. Kessler (OECD NEA)................

17 M. Livolant (IPSN).

21 W. Magwood (DOE).................

35 T. Marston (EPRI).

41 K. Soda (J.AERI) 47 "New Direction in Research"..

61 Hon. G. Dicus, Commissioner, NRC PLENARY SESSION - TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23,2001 Expert Panel: "Waste and Decommissioning" Hon. E. McGaffigan, Commissioner, NRC.....................................

69 M. Boyd (EPA).

73 T. Cardwell (CRCPD).

77 R. Meck (NRC).

81 C. Paperiello (NRC).

91 A. Wallo (DOE).

97 J. Wemer (Consultant).

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Panre Expert Panel: "Advanced Reactors" Hon. J. Merrifield, Commissioner, NXL;.......................................

11D M.Fertel(NI)................................. 119 E.Lyman (NCI)..................................

125 P. Lyons (US Senate Staff - Senator Pete Domenici)..............................

129 W. Magwood (DOE).......................................................

133 T. Marston (EPRI)........................................................

137 PLENARY SESSION - WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24,2001 Speech by Hon. N. Diaz, Comnissioner, NRC.........................................

141 Expert Panel: "Communicating the RES Role and Programs" J. Brons (NE 1)............................................................

145 M. Federline (NRC).

149 A. Kadak (MIT).

153 P. Norry (NRC).

157 T. Okkonen (STUK).

161 MONDAY, OCTOBER 22,2001 SESSION 1: ADVANCED REACTORS T. King (NRC), S. Floyd (NEM), Co-Chalirs PBMR Pre-Application Review.............................................

175 J. Flack (NRC)

NRC Preparation for Future Reactor Licensing..................................

191 J. Lyons (NRC)

New Risk-Informed (NERI) Project on Risk-Informed Regulation..................

201 A. Camp, F. Duran (SNL), G. Apostolakis, M. Golay (MIT), D. Finnicum, S. Ritterbusch (Westinghouse)

New Plant Regulatory Framework.............

211 S. Floyd (NEI)

Summary of NRC Workshop on High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor Safety and Research Issues.......................................................

215 T. King (NRC)

R&D Needs for New Plants: Utility Industry Views...............................

227 E. Rodwell (EPRI)

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Page Hesearcn Neeas, Heiatea to tne vre-appication Activtes ot imii.................. 239 M. Carelli, S. Ritterbusch, C. Brinkman (Westhinghouse)

SESSION 2: DRY CASK STORAGE RESEARCH M. Cunningham, J. Guttman (NRC) Co-Chairs The Package Performance Study: A Study of Spent Fuel Transportation....

........ 251 A. Murphy, R. Lewis (NRC), J. Sprung, K. Sorenson (SNL)

A Risk Analysis of Dry Cask Storage.................

....................... 259 C. Ryder, et al. (NRC)

Seismic Behavior of Spent Fuel Dry Cask Storage Systems......

................ 269 S. Shauket (NRC), V. Luk (SNL)

An Analysis of a Spent Fuel Transportation Cask under Rail Tunnel Fire Conditions.

........................................................ 279 C. Bajwa (NRC)

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23,2001 SESSION 3: AGE-REELATED ISSUES AND RESEARCH N. Chokshl, W. Bateman (NRC) Co-Chair Stress Corrossion Cracking and Non-Destructive Examination of Dissimilar Metal Welds and Alloy 600...............

287 D. Jackson (NRC)

Regulatory Activities Related to Circumferential Cracking of Reactor Pressure Vessel Head Penetration Nozzles........

A. Hiser (NRC)

Aging Evaluation of Cables in Japan...

..................................... 295 A. Yamaguchi (Japan Power Engineering Corp.)

Enhanced Airworthiness Program for Airplane Systems.......

M. Sadeghi (FAA)

Methods to Integrate Aging Effects Into Probabilistic Risk Assessments.....

........ 301 A. Buslik (NRC)

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Page Age-Related Degradation of Structures and Passive Components at

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J. Braverman, C. Miller, C. Hofmayer (BNL), B. Ellingwood (Georgia Tech.),

D. Naus (ORNL), T-Y. Chang (NRC)

SESSION 4: FUEL RESEARCH R. Meyer (NRC), R. Yang (EPRI), Co-Chairs Study of High Burnup Fuel Behavior under LOCA Conditions at JAERI:

Hydrogen Effects on the Failure-bearing Capability of Cladding Tubes.....

335 F. Nagase, H. Uetsuka (JAERI)

Overview of Test Results on Mechanical Properties of Unirradiated and Irradiated Zr-1%oNb El 10 Alloy Cladding..............................................

343 L. Yegorova, E. Kaplar, K. Lioutov (RRC), V. Smirnov, A. Goryachev (RIAR)

High Temperature Oxidation of Irradiated Limerick BWR Cladding.....

353 Y. Yan, et al. (ANL)

Status of the CABRI International Programme and Preparation of the CIPO Test Series.............................................................

373 J. Papin, et al. (IPSN)

FRAPTRAN Fuel Rod Code and its Coupled Transient Analysis with the GENIFLO Thermal Hydraulic Code...........

381 K. Valtonen (STUK), A. Hamaniinen (VTT Energy), M. Cunningham (PNNL)

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24,2001 SESSION 4: FUEL RESEARCH (Cont'd)

Pulse Width During a PWR Rod Ejection Accident..............................

397 D. Diamond, B. Bromley, A. Aronson (BNL)

Revised RIA Criteria for Bumup Extension Applications................................

409 R. Montgomery (Anatech Corp.), N. Waeckel (EdE), R. Yang (EPRI)

Poster Paper: Need for Experimental Programs on LOCA Issues Using High Bumup and MOX Fuels.................

429 A. Mailliat, M. Schwarz (IPSN)

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SESSION 5: RISK INFORMING REGULATORY PRACTICES M. Cunninpham. C. Carnenter (NRC. Cn-rhairr An Overview of NRC Research Activities in Probabilistic Risk Analysis.....

443 S. Newberry, P. Baranowsky, M. Cunningham (NRC)

Pressurized Thermal Shock Risk Assessment...................................

461 D. Whitehead, V. Dandini (SNL), A. Kolaczkowski (SAIC), E. Thomsbury, N. Siu, R. Woods (NRC)

Circuit Analysis in Fire Risk Assessment.

S. Nowlen, F. Wyant (SNL), N. Siu, H. Woods (NRC)

Risk-Based Performance Indicators and the Inspection Process......

471 H. Hamzehee (NRC)

EPRI Strategic Action Plan for Risk Technology................................

475 J. Gaertner, J. Haugh (EPRI) ix

Need for Experimental Programmes on LOCA Issues Using High Bum-Up and MOX Fuels Alain MAILLIAT, Michel. SCHWARZ Institut de Protection et de SOret6 Nucl6aire De6partement de Recherches en S6curit6 C.E.. Cadarache, France Safety studies performed In IPSN and elsewhere pointed out that high bum up might induce significant effects, especially those related with fuel relocation during LOCA situations. Uncertainties exist regarding how much the existing safety margins associated with peak clad temperature, clad oxidation, core coolability, clad residual ductility can be reduced by new fuels like the MOX one, bum up increases, the arrival of various alloys for fuel rod cladding. A better knowledge of specific phenomena associated to fuel effects is required in order to estimate the new margins and to resolve the pending uncertainties related to the LOCA criteria.

Therefore, in addition to the programmes currently planned In the Halden reactor, IPSN is preparing the so-called "APRP-IrradiV (High Bum up fuel LOCA) programme. One of the important aspects of this programme Is In-Pile experiments involving bundle geometries In the PHEBUS facility located at Cadarache, France.

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1. INTRODUCTION In France and in other countries, a permanent evolution of the light water reactors (LWR) is observed since the seventies. The evolution deals with the reactor designs (900 MWeI3 loops, 1300MWe/4 loops, N4, future EPR). It is also related to the fuel management and bumup increase (3 cycles, 4 cycles, 39' GWdItU, 47, 52, 60 GWd/tU In the next future). This evolution affects the fuel itself (UO2, MOX, Gd fuel), the cladding (Zircaloy, Zirlo, M5) and the control rods (Ag-In-Cd, 1 4C). As a consequence of these modifications, there is a permanent need to reassess the reactor safety studies which implies improving the associated knowledge and upgrading the corresponding calculation tools. Such a need Is not specific to the French situation. For the studies associated with the continuous evolution of the reactor operation, the safety authorities requirements are both related to the design basis accidents and the severe accidents. They have to appreciate to which extent their analyses and criteria might be modified by the burnup increase and the type of fuel. In France, under safety considerations, It was requested prior to any generic authorisation of discharge bum-up extension, that the high bum-up fuel behaviour be validated, with the support of appropriate R&D tests results, under accidental conditions, particularly under Loss-of-Coolant-Accident (LOCA) conditions.

The current regulatory safety criteria for LOCA, still in use in most countries, are derived from the ECCS acceptance criteria that were issued by USAEC In December 1973 and published in the Code of Federal Regulations (10.CFR50, part 50.46) as HAcceptance Criteria for Emergency Core Cooling Systems for Light-Water-Cooled-Nuclear Power Reactors".

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I The criteria are stated as 5 requirements, concerning the calculated performance of the cooling system under the most severe loss-of-coolant accident conditions. A summary of these conditions is given on the figure 1 against.

These first two requirements address: the peak cladding temperature (PCT) which shall not exceed 1204"C and the maximum cladding oxidation rate, defined through an equivalent cladding reacted (ECR),

which shall nowhere exceed 17% of the cladding thickness before oxidation but after cladding swelling with or without rupture.

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2. UNCERTAINTIES AND PENDING ISSUES In the aftermath of the AEC LOCA criteria release, numerous studies were undertaken world-wide in order to improve the basic knowledge of the physical phenomena intervening in LOCA transients, so as to allow a better prediction with realistic models. Beyond the numerous experimental investigations that were conducted on unirradiated rods or cladding, either in-pile or out-of-pile, there exists a few number of available results of such experiments with irradiated material. Following is a very short review of the current knowledge on clad and fuel rod behaviour gained from experiments on irradiated material, that will Introduce the pending questions and critical issues for irradiated fuel behaviour in LOCA.

2.1 UNCERTAINTIES 2.1. 1 CLAD BEHA VIOUR An important progress in knowledge relative to irradiated clad behaviour has been obtained from the results of the French EDFAIPSN [1,2] program (TAGCIR and HYDRAZIR tests),

addressing the oxidation kinetics and quench bearing capability of irradiated zircaloy. The main outcome concern:

the protective effect of corrosion oxide scale; the oxidation kinetics of irradiated zircaloy; the resistance to quench loads of irradiated zircaloy; the effect of high hydrogen content, as a result of internal hydriding during LOCA transient Relative to oxidation kinetics and quench behaviour, a comprehensive understanding of all involved phenomena and of their inter-related influences is not yet achieved and leaves still pending questions, most of them being not specific to high BU fuel. One important question is the influence on clad quenching resistance of axial constraints that may result from differential contractions upon quench between guide tubes and a fuel rod blocked in spacer grids as a result of ballooning or metallurgical interaction. Such blockage consequences had been evidenced on past tests at JAERI [3] on unirradiated rods and should therefore be expected to some extent on irradiated rods.

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1 2.1.2 ROD BEHAVIOUR There exists a few number of available results from experiments with irradiated fuel rods under LOCA conditions. The main outcome were found in results from the PBF-LOC tests[4,51 in the USA, the FR2 tests[6] in Germany, and the FLASH5 test[7] In France. They concern the fuel relocation process and an increased cladding deformation.

FUEL RELOCATION All the available tests performed with irradiated fuel X

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Figure 2 This process, here after called fuel relocation, is initiated at the time of the cladding burst, as demonstrated by the FR2-E3 and E4 tests. It is thought that the driving forces are both gravity and the pressure difference between the rod upper plenum and the channel.

This fuel relocation is not counteracted by the fuel-clad tight bounding, which exists with high bumup fuel.

Indeed, the process was observed in the FLASH-5 test with 50GWd/t fuel in spite of a rather low clad strain (not higher than 16%). It is thought that the cladding temperature ing increase combined with its ballooning suppress

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Lone 1 Finally, fuel relocation process is not specific of high bumup fuel. It was also observed for fuel

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These differences in behaviour have been attributed to the lower temperature differences on the clad of irradiated rods, circumferentially and axially, as a result of the pellet-clad gap reduction due to clad creepdown during rod irradiation.

2.2 THE PENDING ISSUES A better understanding of the specific phenomena shortly mentionned above leads to raise a list of some complementary questions related with rod behaviour, fuel relocation process and coolability issue during LOCA transients.

2.2 1 ROD BEHAVIOUR The question mark about rod behaviour is related with the Influence of hydrogen pick-up and other irradiation effects on ballooning, burst behaviour and embrittlement during reflooding which were not considered when 10CFR50, part 50.46 was released.

2.2.2 FUEL RELOCATION Several questions are induced by the relocation process. The first ones concern the process itself. The needed data are the following ones.

o Instant of fuel movement at high bum-up, with possible delay due to fuel-clad bonding.

o Filling ratio of clad balloon at high bum-up, with fragmentation of U02 rim or MOX dusters o Impact of the relocated material on steam access inside the balloon and hydrogen uptake rate.

The second set of question marks concerns the consequences of the relocation process.

a Which are the effects on peak clad temperature and final oxidation ratio of the local increase in lineic and surfacic powers and of the local decrease in fuel-clad gap resulting from fuel accumulation?

Note that these last issues are particularly important for end-of-life MOX fuel for which power generation is not reduced, unlike for U02 fuel.

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2.23 COOLABILITY Related questions should be considered additionally, relative to flow blockage behaviour of highly deformed cladding with possibly relocated fuel and the embrittlement potentials associated to fuel fragmentation. The 90% value for flow blockage still coolable, as derived from results of flooding experiments (FEBA, SEFLEX et al) on unirradiated rods arrays Is questionable since these experiments did not take account of any fuel relocation and associated effects. The needed information are the following.

o What is the maximum flow blockage ratio that leaves coolable an irradiated rods bundle?

o Does the maximum flow blockage ratio attainable with an irradiated rods array remain below the maximum coolable value Indicated above?

There is presently a complete lack of data allowing to answer these questions.

a what flow blockage configuration would be worst coolable with occurrence of fuel relocation?

In other words, is the coplanar flow blockage still the worst coolable case?

3. THE IPSN APRP IRRADJ& PROJECT For many years, IPSN and several other safety organisations have applied a three-tier method for their reactor safety researches. The first step consists of computer code developments from the existing data bases. The second step Involves small-scale, out-of-pile experiments, which provide the additional data bases requested by the code developments and their preliminary assessments. But, as the reactor phenomenology cannot be totally reproduced In such small scale experiments, a third step consisting of integral in-pile experiments using real materials is essential for comprehensive accident analyses. Their results allow the final code assessment in terms of reactor applicability and simulation completeness. This in-pile part of a programme assures that the investments done for code developments and small scale experiments will produce profits in terms of reactor safety. This three-tier method is applied by IPSN for the various research programmes devoted to reactor safety, design basis accidents including RIA and severe accidents programmes.

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But these programmes will not solve all the previously mentioned uncertainties because these ones are mainly associated with the combined behaviour of fuel and cladding under representative conditions of the reactor evolution during the LOCA transient Based on the long fruitful experiences of a three-tier method, the so called APRP lrradid programme, providing the in-pile experiments third tier, should provide the missing part of the data bases required for code assessments in terms of reactor applicability and simulation completeness. This programme is prepared in a coherent way with the present international efforts In order to validate, and possibly update, the results obtained from separate effects tests and previous limited In-pile tests.

3.1 THE MAIN EXPERIMENTAL OBJECTIVES The main objectives of the in-pile experiments will be to investigate the behaviour of fuel and cladding with conditions representative of the reactor during LOCA sequences. The main factors that will be accounted for are:

o the nature of fuel (U02, MOX, Burn-up),

o the fuel-clad thermomechanical coupling (i.e. fuel relocation) o thermal azimuthal gradients (main factor affecting cladding strain and blockage ratio) thermal-hydraulic aspects (i.e. quenching, coolability of blocked arrays) 0 3.2 TEST DEFINITION RATIONALE The following analysis provides the rationale for the APRP-Irradi6 programme characteristics. It is shown that the conditions for having representative data for reactor applications are both in-pile tests and bundle geometry.

3.2.1 NEEDS FOR IN-PILE TESTS The in-pile test need results from three reasons.

Neutron flux provides the unique way to produce the correct heat generation in the fuel fragments, corresponding to the residual power, whatever are the relocations induced by the ballooning and/or the burst of the rod. Both the exact amount of heat generation in the balloon and the heat exchanges with the rod channel depend on the characteristics of the relocated fuel fragments, their size, shapes, and compaction ratio. This heat generation correctness Is one of the main conditions for having realistic estimates of the relocation consequences in terms of equivalent clad reacted, peak clad temperature and hydrogen uptake inside the balloon. All 435

these aspects impact the strength of the rod during the quenching phase and the residual ductility of the rod after the LOCA transient.

During the blowdown phase of the LOCA transient, there is much less heat generation in the fuel and the clad coolant heat transfer is drastically reduced. Therefore, the fuel-stored energy is redistributed In the pellet and the cladding. Simultaneously, within a few seconds, this redistribution produces a decrease of the pellet center-line temperature from 1500"C down to, say, 1000XC and an increase of both the pellet rim and clad temperatures from 300'C up to 1000"C. Due to these temperature transients, the central part of the pellet will experience a contraction while the rim and the clad will undergo an expansion. Fuel mechanical stresses and fragmentation could be induced by these adverse effects. It has to be kept In mind that during usual experiments, for which a blowdown phase Is not reproduced, clad and fuel temperatures are simultaneously increased or decreased without producing any comparable thermomechanical transient. In-pile tests including a blowdown phase provide the way to get a definitive answer regarding the additional fuel fragmentation prior to the relocation and how much this refragmentation process affects the amount and the characteristics of the relocated fuel.

Finally, during reflooding and quench process studies, in-pile tests allow to maintain the heat generation in the fuel corresponding to the residual power. By this way, more representative conditions of the thermomechanical loads of the rods are provided. Without such a power during the reflooding phase, steam production and cladding oxidation are reduced; the temperature transients experienced by the rods are less severe. Consequently, under estimates of core embrittling during reflooding could be obtained.

3.2.2 NEEDS FOR BUNDLE GEOMETRY In addition to the requirement associated to heat generation mentioned above, bundle geometry is a second important condition to produce realistic data. Relocation being closely associated with the volume which is made free by the rod burst, It is clear that a correct amount of relocated fuel will be produced only if the sizes of the balloons are representative of the reactor conditions. Such balloon sizes can be obtained -as explained below-only with bundle geometry. This is the reason why these tests are essential and complementary of single rod tests.

During the early stage of the LOCA transient the fuel rods experience the ballooning and burst processes. For such phenomena, bundle geometry is a necessity to get a correct azimuthal temperature field around the fuel rods since this field is crucial to produce a realistic balloon size. An illustration of the impact of the azimuthal temperature field on the stain at burst is given by the results of single rod tests with heated or non-shroud. A uniformly heated shroud reduces the azimuthal temperature variation around the rod. For such tests a higher rod deformation Is obtained. Conversely, an unheated shroud tends to increase the azimuthal gradient and, therefore, leads to small rod deformation at strain (see figure 4 below).

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Finally, such bundle geometry Is also necessary to represent the axial and radial stresses 6r1W%,Cu-Uy L.le agud arid the adjacent rods, which might restrain the rod contraction during quenching.

3.3 EXPERIMENTAL CONFIGURATIONS Since it is hardly conceivable to carry out one type of experiments that will address all pending questions with any chance to provide some usable results, it appears more appropriate to perform two kinds of in-pile experiments, namely separate effects tests and integral tests.

3.3.1 SEPARATE EFFECTS TESTS The objectives of these tests are to address phenomenological aspects, In order to confirm or correct and extent the previous results relative to:

o rod deformation, o fuel relocation, m the resulting resistance to thermal shock loads, with or without effect of clad axial constraining.

These tests should be realised with one irradiated rod within a ring of 8 fresh fuel rods, which will provide a representative thermal environment in order to ensure representative strains and subsequent phenomena. In addition, these in-pile separate effects tests should include a blowdown phase. As mentioned before, this phase will provide representative conditions for the temperature transient inside the fuel to study the consequences in terms of thermomechanical pre-fragmentation during blowdown.

3.3.2 3.3.2 INTEGRAL TESTS.

This kind of tests will address the aspects of:

o impact of blowdown phase o flow blockage o quenching behaviour and coolability.

These tests should allow to check the absence of unexpected phenomena or unexpected coupling between foreseen processes, and finally provide data for the validation of reactor computational tools.

These tests should be realised with 9 high bum up rods with a ring of 12 or 16 fresh fuel rods which will provide a representative thermal environment In order to ensure representative strains and subsequent phenomena. A blowdown phase will be simulated depending on its importance as observed in the previous studies. Finally, additional axial stress during quenching due to rod blockage in the assembly should be simulated during these tests.

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3.3.3 EXPERIMENTAL FACILITY Such a programme is envisaged by the IPSN in the PHEBUS facility where some twenty LOCA tests were run between 76 and 83 111,14], see figure 6. By this way IPSN would take advantage of the know-how accumulated when the previous LOCA programme with fresh fuel was run.

PHEBUS LOCk TEST CONFIGURATION Figure 6 Furthermore, a new LOCA programme in the Phebus facility would take advantage of the R&D efforts made for the subsequent programmes In terms of high activity material measurements Tomography technique 115,16] is one of the examples, which can be given how such efforts provide practical applications for the new LOCA programme. This technique provides the 3D location and the nature of the material fragments everywhere in a bundle. The exact geometry of the bundle at the end of the test can be reconstructed and explored from the inside. Fuel relocation studies and code validation will be made easier through this technique.

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-91 Presently, fragment size less than 500 microns can be located (see figure 7). Further impr-verment of ihe existing technique will increase the resolution providing several points inside the clad with an oxide/metal discrimination.

4. CONCLUSIONS Studies performed in IPSN and elsewhere pointed out that high bumup may Induce specific effects under LOCA conditions, especially those related with fuel relocation. Uncertainties exist regarding how much these effects might affect the late evolution of the accident transient and the associated safety issues. IPSN estimates that a better knowledge of specific phenomena is required in order to resolve the pending uncertainties related to LOCA criteria.

IPSN is preparing the so-called APRP-lrradi6 (High Bumup fuel LOCA) programme. One of the important aspects of this programme is in-Pile experiments involving bundle geometries in the PHEBUS facility located at Cadarache, France. A feasibility study for such an experimental programme is underway and should provide soon a finalised project including cost and schedule aspects.

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