Abstract
In the event of an accident in a light water moderated nuclear plant, the fission products escape from the water moderator in form of gas bubbles. One of the most important fission products is Iodine. Presently there are only rough estimations of the escape of Iodine. The aim of the experiment planned at the Swiss Federal Institute for Reactor Research (EIR) is to simulate the conditions of an accident and to measure the amount of Iodine which escapes from the moderator water into the space inside the reactor containment.It is supposed that at 5 m depth in a water pool, the canning of the fuel element explodes releasing 1-3 liter large gas bubbles containing the volatile fission products. The Iodine vapor concentration, saturated in the gas bubble, will be about 3 mg/l. It is expected that the water strongly absorbs the Iodine vapor and the I concentration in the gas bubble arriving at the water surface will be strongly reduced to a few ug/l.
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