Development of a MAAP-based Severe Accident Training Simulator using Visual System Analyzer

The recent environment of severe accident analysis requires high performance computers to simulate complicated reactor and containment phenomena. In parallel with this, rapid advances in computer technology now enable these codes to run in real or almost real time. The remaining limitation restricting their use on an even wider scale is that most of the existing codes are still subject to a complicated I/O structure. Even user-friendly graphical user interfaces (GUI) will be not likely to help better and efficient interpretation of the analysis results obtained from these codes as well as for their increased use. This situation has motivated the development of easy-to-use GUI tools for severe accident codes, such as ViSA, SNAP, MAAP4-GRAAP, SATS, and et al. For instance, ViSA enables the thermal-hydraulic system codes to be used like a conventional nuclear plant analyzer. Recently, a project for a real time simulation of results obtained using MAAP4 codes under the ViSA environment has been initiated in KAERI. Such a GUI-based interactive interface can be very useful in sharing real time analysis results obtained from the MAAP code. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the current status of a MAAP-based Severe Accident Simulator being coupled with the ViSA system