As part of a multi-year joint project between the Technische Universität Dresden (TUD), the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) and the Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences (HSZG), experimental and methodological investigations into the safety of wet storage facilities for spent fuel elements are being carried out under the name "SINABEL". The project focuses on experimental single-effect analyses as well as modeling and simulation using complex codes (ATHLET, CFD).

The project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research as part of the "Nuclear Safety and Repository Research" program. Project meetings are regularly organized at the respective institutions, at which the scientific staff report on the work carried out and present the results for discussion. This project meeting took place on 20 September at the Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences, organized by the Institute for Process Engineering, Process Automation and Measurement Technology (IPM). The reconstructed House I provided a pleasant and representative backdrop. 

The technical discussion dealt with safety aspects of pools in which fuel elements of pressurized and boiling water reactors are stored in the meantime. The heat transport processes, their experimental analysis and simulative simulation are of particular interest here.

As part of the project, the young scientists have the opportunity to obtain a doctorate. These R&E activities thus contribute to the transfer of knowledge and expertise between the institutions, to maintaining expertise in the field of nuclear and radiation technology and to securing the next generation of academically trained specialists. These events reflect the close cooperation between the institutions TUD, HZDR and HSZG in the OST Competence Center for Nuclear Technology.