Becker Technologies has a suitable infrastructure for safety related investigation, represented by its capabilities in analytical, experimental and measurement techniques. Extensive data bases from decades of experimental research in large scale test facilities are available. Services are provided to our clients in the following fields:

Reactor safety

• Accident transients in the reactor containment (PWR, BWR, HTR)
• DNB analyses
• Decay heat removal
• Jet force and temperature loading
• Analysis of emergency cooling systems
• Dynamics of water pools (BWR wetwell)
• Hydrogen management, recombiners
• Fission product behaviour, aerosols, iodine
• Core melt behaviour

Combustible and toxic gases

• Hydrogen dispersion in the atmosphere
• Heavy gases
• Hydrogen combustion
• Fuel cells

Model simulation

The following simulation codes are operated by Becker Technologies in relation with safety analyses and experimental evaluation:

• COCOSYS (developed by GRS, Cologne/Germany)
• GOTHIC (EPRI code, developed by NAI, Richland/USA)

Hydrogen deflagration

• Deflagration propagation
• Convective flow, heat transport, radiation
• Fire aerosols, filters, venting systems
• Rescue pathways
• Spray systems