The H2020 McSAFER Project: Main Goals, Technical Work Program, and Status

This paper describes the main objectives, technical content, and status of H2020 project entitled “High-performance advanced methods experimental investigations for safety evaluation generic Small Modular Reactors (McSAFER)”. The pillars this are combination safety-relevant thermal hydraulic experiments numerical simulations different approaches evaluations light water-cooled (SMR). It goals, consortium, involved test facilities, e.g., COSMOS-H (KIT), HWAT (KTH), MOTEL (LUT), including programs. also outlines assessment methodologies applied to four SMR-designs, namely CAREM (CNEA), SMART (KAERI), F-SMR (CEA), NuScale. These multiscale hydraulics, conventional, low order, high fidelity neutron physical used demonstrate inherent features SMR-core designs under postulated design-basis-accident conditions. Finally, is shortly discussed followed by dissemination activities an outlook.