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The Severe Accident (SA) Research Network of excellence SARNET2 is sponsoring a new one-week course entitled "Severe Accident Phenomenology". This Course is a part of the Excellence Spreading activities of SARNET2 and it will focus on disseminationg the knowledge gained on SA in the last two decades to Master-PhD students, young engineers and researchers. The SARNET2 project is co-funded by the EURATOM research program in the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission.

This short Course is a sequel to the previous three SARNET SA Courses. The program will cover SA phenomenology & progression in current water-cooled Gen. II Nuclear Power Plants (NPP), but also the different design solutions in new Gen. III designs addressing SA (i.e., the "in-vessel" melt retention concept or the "ex-vessel" core catcher concept).

Lectures will be given by international experts from major Nuclear Institutes, Industries and Unviersities working on the topic. Lecturers from industry will be able to describe how the different NPPs would react during a SA, keeping in mnind that an introductory short course would not allow lengthy discussions or computer simulations. Moreover, the integral codes, in priority ASTEC (but also MELCOR) will constitute a vehible for applications, thus involving the code developers. 

For further information, please contact Pascal PILUSO (pascal.piluso@cea.fr) and/or Sandro PACI (sandro.paci@ing.unipi.it).

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