Integral Test Facility PKL: Experimental PWR Accident Investigation by Klaus Umminger, Lars Dennhardt, Simon Schollenberger, Bernhard Schoen

“…Investigations of the thermal-hydraulic behavior of pressurized water reactors under accident conditions have been carried out in the PKL test facility at AREVA NP in Erlangen, Germany for many years. The PKL facility models the entire primary side and significant parts of the secondary side of a pressurized water reactor (PWR) at a height scale of 1 : 1. …”
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The Integral Test Facility Karlstein by Stephan Leyer, Michael Wich

“…The Integral Test Facility Karlstein (INKA) test facility was designed and erected to test the performance of the passive safety systems of KERENA, the new AREVA Boiling Water Reactor design. The experimental program included single component/system tests of the Emergency Condenser, the Containment Cooling Condenser and the Passive Core Flooding System. …”
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‘Fission Chips’: An Activist’s View on Anti-Nuclear Activism in South Africa from the 1980s to the 21st Century by Mike Kantey

“…We further review the successive infiltration by the global nuclear industry from the German Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) through the French company AREVA to the advent of the Russian VVER. Evidence of the decisive role played by Eskom is presented, while we show how energy policy became implacably skewed in favour of nuclear power by means of a ‘policy-adjusted’ IRP2010, which became the unchallenged justification for the nuclear fleet. …”
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