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深谷 裕司; 丸山 貴大; 後藤 実; 大橋 弘史; 樋口 英明
JAEA-Research 2023-002, 19 Pages, 2023/06
JAEA-Research-2023-002.pdf:1.48MB
商用高温ガス炉使用済燃料の再処理に由来する廃棄物の処分に関する研究を行った。軽水炉の再処理と高温ガス炉の再処理では燃料の構造の違いによる大きな違いがあるため、軽水炉に対して制定された再処理の廃棄物処理に関する法律の高温ガス炉廃棄物への適用性を確認すべきである。そこで、技術の違いを比較するとともに、全炉心燃焼計算を用いて、黒鉛廃棄物の放射化量及び表面汚染による放射能濃度を評価することにより、再処理廃棄物について比較を行った。その結果、SiC残渣廃棄物は、特定放射性廃棄物の最終処分に関する法律(2000年法律第117号)の第二種特定放射性廃棄物として軽水炉のハル・エンドピースと同様に地層処分されるべきことが分かった。黒鉛廃棄物については、軽水炉のチャンネルボックスと同様に、核原料物質、核燃料物質及び原子炉の規制に関する法律(1957年法律第166号)の第二種廃棄物としてピット処分による浅地中処分されるべきことが分かった。
福井 悠平*; 遠藤 知弘*; 山本 章夫*; 丸山 修平
EPJ Web of Conferences, 281, p.00006_1 - 00006_9, 2023/03
外れ値を含む実験データの新しい核データ調整方法を開発した。本手法は感度係数を用いた従来の核データ調整法にロバスト推定の一種であるM推定を適用することで、外れ値の影響を軽減するものである。本論文では、M推定に基づいて重み付けされた核データ調整式を導出し、重み付けの計算方法を開発した。各実験データの重みは、核特性の測定値と計算値の差から計算される。この重みは特異値分解を用いて核特性間の相関を考慮することにより評価することができる。さらに、提案手法と従来手法を双子実験により比較検証した。双子実験では、核データは意図的に外れ値を含む実験データを使用した。結果、外れ値を含む実験データであっても核データがロバストかつ適切に調整されていることを確認した。
南上 光太郎; 塩津 弘之; 丸山 結; 杉山 智之; 岡本 孝司*
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 8 Pages, 2023/00
被引用回数：0 パーセンタイル：0.02(Nuclear Science & Technology)For proper source term evaluation, we constructed the theoretical model to estimate the mass transfer coefficient of gaseous iodine species under two-phase flow conditions, which complicates the direct experimental measurements. The mass transfer speed is determined by the product of the overall mass transfer coefficient and the interfacial area. By using the ratio of two gas components, the interfacial area, which is an important parameter that is difficult to measure, can be canceled out and the ratio of their overall mass transfer coefficients can be obtained. This ratio is expected to be equal to the ratio of their diffusion coefficients. Therefore, the unknown mass transfer coefficient such as iodine species can be estimated using the diffusion coefficients of two gas components and the reference mass transfer coefficient such as O
. We carried out the experiments using the bubble column to confirm this relationship. From the results in this study, we confirmed that the ratio of the overall mass transfer coefficient was in good agreement with the ratio of diffusion coefficient under the bubbly flow conditions. Using this relationship confirmed in this study, we estimated the mass transfer coefficient of I, one of the iodine species.
松本 俊慶; 川部 隆平*; 岩澤 譲; 杉山 智之; 丸山 結
Annals of Nuclear Energy, 178, p.109348_1 - 109348_13, 2022/12
シビアアクシデント時の溶融物関連事象を評価するためにFCIコードであるJASMINEの機能拡張を行った。溶融物の冷却性評価ではキャビティ床面上における粒子状・アグロメレーション・ケーキ状デブリ質量割合や最終的な幾何形状の予測が必要である。アグロメレーションモデルでは、熱を保有した粒子同士のくっつきを考慮し、組み込んだ。もう一つのモデル改良は拡がりモデルの改良である。浅水方程式を導入し、拡がり先端部のクラスト成長に基づく拡がり停止条件を組み込んだ。調整係数の最適化のためにスウェーデンKTHにおいて実施されたDEFOR-A及びPULiMS実験を参照した。JASMINEコードによる実験解析では共通のパラメータセットで良い再現性が得られ、主要な現象は適切にモデル化されたことを示した。
Zheng, X.; 玉置 等史; 高原 省五; 杉山 智之; 丸山 結
Proceedings of Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management (PSAM16) (Internet), 10 Pages, 2022/09
Uncertainty gives rise to the risk. For nuclear power plants, probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) systematically concludes what people know to estimate the uncertainty in the form of, for example, risk triplet. Capable of developing a definite risk profile for decision-making under uncertainty, dynamic PRA widely applies explicit modeling techniques such as simulation to scenario generation as well as the estimation of likelihood/probability and consequences. When quantifying risk, however, epistemic uncertainties exist in both PRA and dynamic PRA, as a result of the lack of knowledge and model simplification. The paper aims to propose a practical approach for the treatment of uncertainty associated with dynamic PRA. The main idea is to perform the uncertainty analysis by using a two-stage nested Monte Carlo method, and to alleviate the computational burden of the nested Monte Carlo simulation, multi-fidelity models are introduced to the dynamic PRA. Multi-fidelity models include a mechanistic severe accident code MELCOR2.2 and machine learning models. A simplified station blackout (SBO) scenario was chosen as an example to show practicability of the proposed approach. As a result, while successfully calculating the probability of large early release, the analysis is also capable to provide uncertainty information in the form probability distributions. The approach can be expected to clarify questions such as how reliable are results of dynamic PRA.
Zheng, X.; 玉置 等史; 杉山 智之; 丸山 結
Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 223, p.108503_1 - 108503_12, 2022/07
被引用回数：9 パーセンタイル：89.38(Engineering, Industrial)Dynamic probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) more explicitly treats timing issues and stochastic elements of risk models. It extensively resorts to iterative simulations of accident progressions for the quantification of risk triplets including accident scenarios, probabilities and consequences. Dynamic PRA leverages the level of detail for risk modeling while intricately increases computational complexities, which result in heavy computational cost. This paper proposes to apply multi-fidelity simulations for a cost- effective dynamic PRA. It applies and improves the multi-fidelity importance sampling (MFIS) algorithm to generate cost-effective samples of nuclear reactor accident sequences. Sampled accident sequences are paralleled simulated by using mechanistic codes, which is treated as a high-fidelity model. Adaptively trained by using the high-fidelity data, low-fidelity model is used to predicting simulation results. Interested predictions with reactor core damages are sorted out to build the density function of the biased distribution for importance sampling. After when collect enough number of high-fidelity data, risk triplets can be estimated. By solving a demonstration problem and a practical PRA problem by using MELCOR 2.2, the approach has been proven to be effective for risk assessment. Comparing with previous studies, the proposed multi-fidelity approach provides comparative estimation of risk triplets, while significantly reduces computational cost.
Lind, T.*; Herranz, L. E.*; Sonnenkalb, M.*; 丸山 結
Proceedings of 19th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH-19) (Internet), 15 Pages, 2022/03
The accident progression and fission product release from the three damaged units of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant were systematically investigated in the OECD/NEA BSAF project phases 1 and 2. As a result of those investigations, a good progress was achieved in establishing defendable accident scenarios and the corresponding fission product releases to the environment. Nonetheless, there are some areas requiring further work, particularly concerning fission product behavior. They are addressed in the OECD/NEA project "Analysis of Information from Reactor Buildings and Containment Vessels of Fukushima Daiichi NPS" (ARC-F). Based on the outcome of the BSAF project, several focus areas were selected for further investigations in the ARC-F project, one of them being the behavior of fission products and source term. In this paper, five topics which were ranked with a high significance as open issues based on the BSAF project regarding fission product behavior are discussed: i) fission product speciation, ii) iodine chemistry, iii) pool scrubbing, iv) fission product transport and behavior in the buildings, and v) uncertainty analysis and variant calculations. Significant progress has been made in these five topics in the ARC-F project. In this paper, background is given for choosing these topics for specific investigations based on the outcome of the BSAF project. The topics are described and the approach to study them in the ARC-F given along with some exemplary, preliminary results. Finally, the readers' attention is drawn to open issues which are not included in the ARC-F work scope and could need further attention.
Gupta, S.*; Herranz, L. E.*; Lebel, L. S.*; Sonnenkalb, M.*; Pellegrini, M.*; Marchetto, C.*; 丸山 結; Dehbi, A.*; Suckow, D.*; K
rkel, T.*
Proceedings of 19th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH-19) (Internet), 16 Pages, 2022/03
Pool scrubbing is a major topic in water cooled nuclear reactor technology as it is one of the means for mitigating the source-term to the environment during a severe accident. Pool scrubbing phenomena include coupled interactions between bubble hydrodynamics, aerosols and gaseous radionuclides retention mechanisms under a broad range of thermal-hydraulic conditions as per accident scenarios. Modeling pool scrubbing in some relevant accident scenarios has shown to be affected by substantial uncertainties. In this context, IPRESCA (Integration of Pool scrubbing Research to Enhance Source-term CAlculations) project aims to promote a better integration of international research activities related to pool scrubbing by providing support in experimental research to broaden the current knowledge and database, and by supporting analytical research to facilitate systematic validation and model enhancement of the existing pool scrubbing codes. The project consortium includes more than 30 organisations from 15 countries involving research institutes, universities, TSOs, and industry. For IPRESCA activities, partners join the project with in-kind contributions. IPRESCA operates under NUGENIA Technical Area 2/SARNET (Severe Accident) - Sub Technical Area 2.4 (Source-term). The present paper provides an introduction and overview of the IPRESCA project, including its objectives, organizational structure and the main outcomes of completed activities. Furthermore, key activities currently ongoing or planned in the project framework are also discussed.
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)
O
(0 
x 0.2) hexagonal ferrite丸山 建一*; 田中 誠也*; 鬼柳 亮嗣; 中尾 朗子*; 森山 健太郎*; 石川 喜久*; 天児 寧*; 飯山 拓*; 二村 竜祐*; 内海 重宣*; et al.
Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 892, p.162125_1 - 162125_8, 2022/02
被引用回数：2 パーセンタイル：23.5(Chemistry, Physical)Hexagonal ferrite Ba(FeSc)O is an important magnetic oxide material in both science and engineering because it exhibits helimagnetism around room temperature (300 K). In this study, the magnetic phase diagram of Ba(FeSc)O consisting of ferri-, heli-, antiferro-, and paramagnetic phases has been completed through magnetization and neutron diffraction measurements. The magnetic phase transition temperature to paramagnetism decreases with the increase in x, and the temperature at which the magnetization reaches a maximum, which corresponds to the magnetic phase transition from heli- to ferrimagnetism, is determined for low x crystals. The temperatures at which helimagnetism appears are precisely determined by observing the magnetic satellite reflection peaks in neutron diffraction at various temperatures, which characterize helimagnetism. Based on these results, the magnetic phase diagram of the Ba(FeSc)O system is constructed in the T-x plane. Helimagnetism appears at x 
0.06, and magnetism with antiferromagnetic components appears as the extension phase of helimagnetism at x 0.19 through the coexistence region. The turn angle 
of the helix for each x crystal is calculated from the relationship, 
, where 
is the incommensurability. The turn angle decreases with the increase in temperature for the same x crystal, and increases with the increase in x at the same temperature. Furthermore, it is found that there are clear thresholds at which cannot take values between 0
< < 90 and 170 < < 180.
島田 亜佐子; 谷口 良徳; 垣内 一雄; 大平 早希; 飯田 芳久; 杉山 智之; 天谷 政樹; 丸山 結
Scientific Reports (Internet), 12(1), p.2086_1 - 2086_11, 2022/02
被引用回数：0 パーセンタイル：0.01(Multidisciplinary Sciences)2011年3月12日に福島第一原子力発電所の1号機のベントが行われ、1・2号機共用スタックから放射性ガスが放出された。本研究ではこのベントにより放出された放射性核種の情報を有していると考えられる、1・2号機共用スタック基部のドレンピットから採取したドレン水の放射化学分析を実施した。揮発性の
Iや
Cs, 
Csだけでなく、
Co, 
Sr, 
Sb, 1号機由来安定Moが検出された。1号機由来安定Moの量はCsの量よりもはるかに少ないことから、事故時の炉内状況ではCsMoO
の生成は抑制されたと考えられる。また、2020年10月時点では、約90%のIがI
、約10%がIO
で存在した。Csより多いIが観測されたことから、事故時に
IはCsIというよりも分子状のヨウ素として放出されたことが示唆された。2011年3月11日に減衰補正したCs/Cs放射能比は0.86で、2号機や3号機由来と考えられる放射能比より低いことが示された。
塩津 弘之; 伊藤 裕人*; 杉山 智之; 丸山 結
Annals of Nuclear Energy, 163, p.108587_1 - 108587_9, 2021/12
被引用回数：0 パーセンタイル：0.01(Nuclear Science & Technology)In the late phase of severe accident in light water reactor nuclear power station, re-mobilization of fission products (FPs) has a significant impact on the source term because most portion of FPs is retained in reactor coolant system and/or containment vessel. Recently, VERDON-2 experiment showed noticeable re-vaporization, which was one of the re-mobilization phenomena, of iodine under air ingress condition, but this mechanism has not been identified yet. The present study numerically investigated the FPs behaviors in VERDON-2 experiment with the mechanistic FPs transport analysis code incorporating thermodynamic chemical equilibrium model in order to further understand nature for FPs behavior, especially iodine re-vaporization under air ingress condition. Consequently, this analysis reproduced the deposition profile of cesium, one of important FPs in the source term, along the thermal gradient tube (TGT) in the experiment, which revealed that cesium was transported as CsOH in early phase of FP release from fuel, and then formed CsMoO and CsTe after the release of molybdenum and tellurium was activated. Regarding iodine as another important FP, formation of CsI was predicted in steam condition. The CsI was transported and partly deposited and condensed onto the TGTs and other components of the VERDON facility. Under the air ingress condition, the present analysis showed the agreement for iodine re-vaporization in the experiment and revealed its mechanism; the deposits of iodide were chemical re-vaporized as molecular iodine (I) gas by redox reaction with competitive elements such as molybdenum, chromium and tellurium.
丸山 龍治; 山崎 大; 青木 裕之; 阿久津 和宏*; 花島 隆泰*; 宮田 登*; 曽山 和彦; Bigault, T.*; Saerbeck, T.*; Courtois, P.*
Journal of Applied Physics, 130(8), p.083904_1 - 083904_10, 2021/08
被引用回数：2 パーセンタイル：24.43(Physics, Applied)Ferromagnetic (FM) interlayer exchange coupling of ion-beam sputtered Fe/Ge multilayers was investigated by off-specular polarized neutron scattering measurements. We observed a monotonously growing correlation of magnetic moments in the out-of-plane direction with decreasing Ge thickness. The results of the Fe/Ge multilayers were used to invoke FM interlayer exchange coupling in a neutron polarizing supermirror in order to extend its bandwidth. Typically, the bandwidth is limited due to a Curie temperature close to room temperature of the thinnest Fe layers with less than 3 nm. We propose a modified layer sequence of the neutron polarizing supermirror, where the minimum Fe thickness was set to 3.5 nm whereas the Ge thickness was reduced. A performance test of the neutron polarizing supermirror showed that the FM interlayer exchange coupling contributed to the presence of the magnetization comparable to the bulk and resulted in a marked extension in the bandwidth.
丸山 結; 吉田 一雄
日本原子力学会誌ATOMO
, 63(7), p.517 - 522, 2021/07
確率論的リスク評価(PRA)は合理的かつ定量的にリスクを評価する強力な手法である。しかしながら、PRAを実践しつつ、得られた結果を分析し、様々な意思決定に活用する上では、多様な分野の専門的な知識や技術,経験を必要とする。原子力施設のリスク評価においては、シビアアクシデントに至る過程やその進展を評価することが不可欠であり、それらに強く関連する熱流動は、PRAにおける重要な専門分野の一つである。本稿では、軽水炉のレベル2PRAにおけるソースターム評価及び再処理施設のシビアアクシデント時ソースターム評価を中心に、リスク評価における熱流動解析の役割について概説する。
Khatib-Rahbar, M.*; Barrachin, M.*; Denning, R.*; Gabor, J.*; Gauntt, R.*; Herranz, L. E.*; Hobbins, R.*; Jacquemain, D.*; 丸山 結; Metcalf, J.*; et al.
NUREG/CR-7282, ERI/NRC 21-204 (Internet), 160 Pages, 2021/04
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is preparing to accept anticipated licensing applications for the commercial use of accident tolerant fuel (ATF) in commercial nuclear power plants in the United States. It is the objective of the NRC to evaluate the effects of ATF designs on severe accident behavior, and to determine potential changes to the NRC severe accident analysis computer codes that would simulate plant conditions using ATFs commensurate with the accuracy in accident analyses involving conventional fuels. This report documents the development of Phenomena Identification and Ranking Tables (PIRTs) for near-term ATFs under severe accident conditions in light water reactors (LWRs). The PIRTs were developed by a panel of experts for various near-term ATF design concepts (i.e., FeCrAl cladding, zirconium alloy cladding coated with chromium, and CrO dopants in uranium dioxide fuels) in addition to the impacts from fuel enrichment and burnup. Panel members also considered the severe accident implications of the longer-term ATF concepts. The main figures-of-merit considered in this ranking process are the amount of fission products released into the containment and the quantity of combustible gases generated during an accident. Special focus is given to whether existing severe accident codes and models would be sufficient as applied to LWRs employing these fuels, and whether additional experimental studies or model development would be warranted.
2020年9月)与能本 泰介; 中島 宏*; 曽野 浩樹; 岸本 克己; 井澤 一彦; 木名瀬 政美; 長 明彦; 小川 和彦; 堀口 洋徳; 猪井 宏幸; et al.
JAEA-Review 2020-056, 51 Pages, 2021/03
JAEA-Review-2020-056.pdf:3.26MB
「グレーデッドアプローチに基づく合理的な安全確保検討グループ」は、原子力科学研究部門、安全・核セキュリティ統括部、原子力施設管理部署、安全研究・防災支援部門の関係者約10名で構成され、機構の施設管理や規制対応に関する効果的なグレーデッドアプローチ(安全上の重要度に基づく方法)の実現を目的としたグループである。本グループは、2019年の9月に活動を開始し、以降、2020年9月末までに、10回の会合を開催するとともに、メール等も利用し議論を行ってきた。会合では、グレーデッドアプローチの基本的考え方、各施設での新規制基準等への対応状況、新検査制度等についての議論を行なうとともに、各施設での独自の検討内容の共有等を行っている。本活動状況報告書は、本活動の内容を広く機構内外で共有することにより、原子力施設におけるグレーデッドアプローチに基づく合理的で効果的な安全管理の促進に役立つことを期待し取りまとめるものである。
丸山 結
エネルギーレビュー, 41(4), p.20 - 24, 2021/03
2011年3月に発生した東京電力福島第一原子力発電所事故後に安全研究・防災支援部門が発足し、この中に安全研究センター及び原子力緊急時支援・研修センターが置かれた。安全研究・防災支援部門における最大のミッションは、東京電力福島第一原子力事故の教訓を踏まえつつ、ニーズに則した質の高い安全研究を行って、原子力規制委員会/原子力規制庁を技術的に支援することである。本稿では、東京電力福島第一原子力発電所の事故を踏まえたニーズに対応した安全研究センターにおける研究の展開に加え、安全研究センターにおける東京電力福島第一原子力発電所事故の対応に係わる短期的な(事故発生直後から大よそ1年間)活動及び東京電力福島第一原子力発電所の事故に係わる国際協力について概説する。
丸山 龍治; 山崎 大; 阿久津 和宏*; 花島 隆泰*; 宮田 登*; 青木 裕之; 曽山 和彦
JPS Conference Proceedings (Internet), 33, p.011092_1 - 011092_6, 2021/03
中性子偏極スーパーミラーは、熱及び冷中性子ビームを偏極するための光学素子であり、実機への応用には高偏極率であるとともに必要な外部磁場を小さく抑えること、即ち偏極スーパーミラーを構成する磁気多層膜が磁気的にソフトであることが重要である。本発表では、J-PARC MLFの共用ビームラインBL17等を用いて得られた偏極スーパーミラーの高偏極率化、及び磁気多層膜の軟磁性化を目指しこれを構成する多層膜特有の磁気特性の解明に関する成果について議論する。
川北 至信; 菊地 龍弥*; 田原 周太*; 中村 充孝; 稲村 泰弘; 丸山 健二*; 山内 康弘*; 河村 聖子; 中島 健次
JPS Conference Proceedings (Internet), 33, p.011071_1 - 011071_6, 2021/03
ヨウ化銅は高温固相で、ヨウ素イオンが作る面心立方格子の隙間を銅イオンが動く超イオン伝導体になることで知られている。溶融相でも、集団的あるいは協調的なイオンの運動を示す特徴がある。MDシミュレーションにおいて、銅イオンの拡散がヨウ素イオンより非常に速いこと分かっている。Cu-Cu部分構造因子にはFSDPと呼ばれる構造を持ち、銅の分布に中距離秩序があることを示している。さらに、Cu-Cu部分二体分布関数は、Cu-Iで形成される最近接分布に深く入り込んでいる。そうした溶融CuIの異常的振る舞いの原因を解明するために、J-PARCの物質・生命科学実験施設に設置されたディスクチョッパー分光器AMATERASを用いて、中性子準弾性散乱(QENS)実験を行った。構造可干渉性のQENSから得られた動的構造因子を理解するため、モード分布解析を行った。その結果、ヨウ素イオンの運動が局所的に閉じ込められた空間で揺らぐような運動であること、一方銅イオンはヨウ素イオンより速く拡散する運動をしていることが分かった。
山田 一夫*; 丸山 一平*; 芳賀 和子*; 五十嵐 豪*; 粟飯原 はるか; 富田 さゆり*; Kiran, R.*; 大澤 紀久*; 柴田 淳広; 渋谷 和俊*; et al.
Proceedings of International Waste Management Symposia 2021 (WM2021) (CD-ROM), 10 Pages, 2021/03
To properly decommission the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, the contamination levels and mechanisms for the concrete structures must be assessed. In this review, we outline the results of this study and present the objectives of a future study called "Quantitative Evaluation of Contamination in Reinforced Concrete Members of Fukushima Daiichi NPP Buildings Considering the Actual Environment Histories for Legitimate Treatments", which will run from October 2020 to March 2023. The experimental results from the first project indicate that concrete carbonation, Ca leaching, and drying conditions affected the adsorption of Cs and Sr and their penetration depths. Additionally, the studies showed that 
-nuclides precipitated on the surface of the samples because of the high pH of concrete. A reaction transfer model was developed to further assess the adsorption characteristics of Cs and Sr in carbonated cement paste and concrete aggregates. The model used real concrete characteristics from the FDNPP materials and historical boundary conditions at the site, including radionuclide concentrations and penetration profiles within the turbine pit wall. The water suction by dried concrete was evaluated with the consideration of the structure change of cement hydrates by X-ray CR and 
H-NMR relaxometry. In the new project, the studies will also include concrete cracks for more realistic contamination estimations.
Pellegrini, M.*; Herranz, L.*; Sonnenkalb, M.*; Lind, T.*; 丸山 結; Gauntt, R.*; Bixler, N.*; Morreale, A.*; Dolganov, K.*; Sevon, T.*; et al.
Nuclear Technology, 206(9), p.1449 - 1463, 2020/09
被引用回数：29 パーセンタイル：98.5(Nuclear Science & Technology)The OECD/NEA Benchmark Study at the Accident of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (BSAF) project, which started in 2012 and continued until 2018, was one of the earliest responses to the accident at Fukushima Daiichi. The project, divided into two phases addressed the investigation of the accident at Unit 1, 2 and 3 by Severe Accident (SA) codes until 500 h focusing on thermal-hydraulics, core relocation, Molten Corium Concrete Interaction (MCCI) and fission products release and transport. The objectives of BSAF were to make up plausible scenarios based primarily on SA forensic analysis, support the decommissioning and inform SA codes modeling. The analysis and comparison among the institutes have brought up vital insights regarding the accident progression identifying periods of core meltdown and relocation, Reactor Pressure Vessel (RPV) and Primary Containment Vessel (PCV) leakage/failure through the comparison of pressure, water level and CAMS signatures. The combination of code results and inspections (muon radiography, PCV inspection) has provided a picture of the current status of the debris distribution and plant status. All units present a large relocation of core materials and all of them present ex-vessel debris with Unit 1 and Unit 3 showing evidences of undergoing MCCI. Uncertainties have been identified in particular on the time and magnitude of events such as corium relocation in RPV and into cavity floor, RPV and PCV rupture events. Main uncertainties resulting from the project are the large and continuous MCCI progression predicted by basically all the SA codes and the leak pathways from RPV to PCV and PCV to reactor building and environment. The BSAF project represents a pioneering exercise which has set the basis and provided lessons learned not only for code improvement but also for the development of new related projects to investigate in detail further aspects of the Fukushima Daiichi accident.
