Transnational Access to the PLINIUS Prototypic Corium Experimental Platform

PLINIUS is a unique prototypic corium experimental platform open to research groups through a Transnational Access to major Research Infrastructure RTD project. The European Commission finances the performance of experiments by European visiting scientists on the platform. Selected after the March 2002 Call for Proposals, a first visit of Bulgarian scientific users lead to the realisation in May 2003 of a fission product release test in the COLIMA facility. A test of the COMET concept with prototypic corium and sustained heating is under preparation in the VULCANO facility for German users. A call for proposals is open for a test to be performed in the KROTOS facility.