8th working meeting of the SESAME project, TUD, Delft, the Netherlands

Project SESAME is a project within the European project Horizon 2020. The three main objectives of the SESAME project are: the development and validation of advanced numerical approaches for the design and safety evaluation of advanced reactors; achievement of a new or extended validation base by creation of new reference data; and establishment of Best Practice Guidelines. Project results are expected to be used in the planning and improvement of fourth generation reactors such as ASTRID, MYRRHA, ALFRED and SEALER. The project is divided into 7 work packages. 23 organizations from the European Union and two organizations from the USA are involved in the project.

In the first, common part of the meeting, organizations that prepare experimental facilities and the simulations of these, present progress in the facilities construction, experimental work and analysis of the simulation results. The meeting continued with joint and distributed work by individual work packages.

The meeting took place from 2nd to 4th of October at the premises of the TUD organization in Delft in the Netherlands. The meeting was attended by Jure Oder as a representative of the Reactor Engineering Division. In the first part of the meeting, he presented results of a direct numerical simulation of liquid sodium through a backward step with a heater.