EAGLE Test-Bench
Primarily, studies at the test-bench are focused at mitigation of severe accident consequences of a nuclear power reactor, minimization of possible destruction of reactor protection barriers (pressure vessel, concrete foundation of a reactor) preventing the release of corium and fission products into the environment.
The test-bench is used for experimental studies of conditions of corium jet fragmentation onset, which enters to a pool with sodium coolant as well as a depth of its penetration into sodium depending on diameter and speed of the jet.
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- Out-of-pile EAGLE facility
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- Control room of EAGLE facility
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- EAGLE facility opening ceremony on May 12, 2000
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- the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev at the EAGLE facility, 2003
EAGLE test-bench allows obtaining up to 26 kg of molten composition consisting of high temperature oxides (UO2, ZrO2, Al2O3) at temperature up to 3000°С.