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Station in Tamil Nadu to have six VVER-1000 units
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Saturday, 08 July 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/core-catcher-installed-at-kudankulam-5-nuclear-plant-7-5-2023
The core catcher – also known as a core melt localisation device or core trap – is designed to catch the molten core material, or corium, from a nuclear reactor in the event of a nuclear meltdown and to prevent it from escaping the containment. It is part of the passive safety system.
Installation of the core catcher will allow further works on the reactor building pit.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Friday, 21 January 2022
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/core-catcher-installation-underway-at-tianwan-7-says-rosatom-1-4-2022
The core catcher has been installed for Unit 3 of the Xudabu nuclear power station, also known as Xudabao, under construction in Liaoning Province, northeast China, Russian state-nuclear corporation Rosatom said.
The core catcher – also known as a core melt localisation device or core trap – is designed to catch the molten core material, or corium, from a nuclear reactor in the event of a nuclear meltdown and to prevent it from escaping the containment.
Rostom said the installation of the 156-tonne component is a milestone activity which allows further works on the reactor building pit.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Wednesday, 19 January 2022
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/core-catcher-installed-at-xudabu-3-says-russia-s-rosatom-1-2-2022
Russia’s Techsnabexport (Tenex) in a consortium with specialists from key institutes have completed a two-year project to study the effect of storage conditions on the characteristics of modelled fuel-containing materials (corium). The institutes include the VG Khlopin Radium Institute (St Petersburg), the Research Institute of Atomic Reactors in Dimitrovgrad (NIIAR - part of Rosatom’s scientific division), the AP Aleksandrov Scientific Research Technological Institute (NITI in Sosnovy Bor) and the St Petersburg branch of the Institute of Geoecology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The project administrator was Japan’s Mitsubishi Research Institute.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 06 August 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussian-scientists-complete-project-to-predict-the-properties-of-fukushima-corium-8969007