High pressure bubble expansion in liquid is involved in several safety problems studied in the Nuclear Industry, such as Borax-type accidents in pool-type experimental reactors or Hypothetical Core Disruptive Accident (HCDA) in a liquid-sodium fast breeder reactor. A Borax-type accident involves a high-pressure bubble created by the interaction of melted metal materials with water. For a liquid-sodium fast breeder reactor, the scenario of an HCDA supposes the reactor core has partially melted and the molten fuel chemically interacts with the liquid sodium to produce a large quantity of gaseous components. The explosive expansion of the high-pressure gas bubble thus formed yields significant loads on the reactor vessel. A wide range of Mach...