CAMP – Spain Program

INTRODUCTION. BACKGROUND

Over the last 30 years, a considerable group of Spanish organisations, including the CSN, have promoted efforts aimed at assimilating, improving and applying thermohydraulic codes to Spanish nuclear power plants. These collaborations have been implemented through various projects, grouped together under the heading “Participation in NRC Code Maintenance Projects (CAMP) and NEA/OECD Thermohydraulic Experimental Programmes (SYSTHER, ATLAS, RBHT and POLCA), and their Application to Spanish Plants (CAMP-Spain)”.

Each of these projects has made it possible to increase and improve the availability of models of experimental facilities and Spanish plants with a growing level of validation, and they are managing to maintain a national community of experts in thermohydraulics (TH) and in the use of the most up-to-date TH simulation codes, with the ability to update their practices in unison with the international community.

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION PROGRAMS

The CAMP Programme is an international cooperation programme in the field of thermohydraulic research promoted by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC), whose main objective is the verification, validation, maintenance and application of the RELAP5/MOD3 and TRACE thermohydraulic codes. These codes represent the state of the art in the application of two-phase fluid mechanics to light water nuclear power plants, enabling the simulation of most hypothetical accident scenarios, as well as nuclear tests and/or actual incidents that have occurred.

Independently, the CSN has been participating since the beginning of this century in various NEA/OECD programmes on experimental thermohydraulics. These international collaborations are required by successive SESAR/SFEAR reports published by the NEA/OECD, which, among other things, identify various comprehensive experimental facilities that are considered essential to maintain in order not to lose the knowledge and infrastructure necessary to sustain the technology. The CSN has signed agreements relating to the SYSTHER (Framatome, LUT and CEA), ATLAS (KAERI) and, more recently, RBHT (USNRC) and POLCA (IRSN) experimental programmes.

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CAMP – España JOINT PROGRAM

Aiming at better tracking and exploitation of these programs, the CSN has promoted the participation of all interested Spanish stakeholders. This has been channeled through the CAMP – España program, which currently comprises Spanish NPPs, 4 Spanish engineering firms (Empresarios Agrupados, Tecnatom, IDOM, NFQ) and 6 groups from national universities (UPM, UPV and UPC), and the CSN..

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PARTICIPANTS. CONTACTS