Code assessment in context of severe accident phenomenology

The following paper gives an outline of current research activities in the field of reactor simulation and safety at Ruhr-Universitat Bochum. Results related to phenomena of core degradation, hydrogen combustion and molten corium concrete interaction will be presented. These deal with the simulation of relevant experiments in order to validate the severe accident codes ASTEC, ATHLET-CD and COCOSYS. Exemplarily, simulation results of the tests QUENCH-16, BMC Ix9 and OECD CCI-2/-3 are discussed. The importance of these phenomena is illustrated by the Three Mile Island and Fukushima Daiichi accidents.