Published 2004 | Version v1
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Recent progress of and challenges for U.S. severe accident codes

Creators

  • 1. School of Nuclear Engineering, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)

Description

Severe accident code development has been an ongoing process for over three decades, and a variety of analysis tools are currently available to evaluate light water reactor behavior. These codes have been created by developers from a variety of backgrounds and with different goals. Based on knowledge obtained from experimental programs, considerable progress has been made in severe accident code development. However, many phenomena are not yet sufficiently modeled and the advent of new nuclear reactor designs introduces additional conditions and geometries that are currently not modeled. This paper discusses recent progress in U.S. severe accident code development, challenges that lie ahead and efforts to meet the demands placed on the codes. (author)

Part of:
NUTHOS-6: Proceedings of the 6th international topical meeting on nuclear reactor thermal hydraulics, operations and safety

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Publishing Information

Publisher
Atomic Energy Society of Japan
Imprint Place
Tokyo (Japan)
Imprint Title
NUTHOS-6: Proceedings of the 6th international topical meeting on nuclear reactor thermal hydraulics, operations and safety
Imprint Pagination
3690 p.
Journal Page Range
16 p.

Conference

Title
6. international topical meeting on nuclear reactor thermal hydraulics, operations and safety
Acronym
NUTHOS-6
Dates
4-8 Oct 2004
Place
Nara (Japan)

INIS

Country of Publication
Japan
Country of Input or Organization
Japan
INIS RN
36083925
Subject category
S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
ANALYTICAL SOLUTION; BWR TYPE REACTORS; COMPUTER CODES; HISTORICAL ASPECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PWR TYPE REACTORS; REACTOR ACCIDENTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY ANALYSIS; USA; VALIDATION
Descriptors DEC
ACCIDENTS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; NORTH AMERICA; POWER REACTORS; REACTORS; TESTING; THERMAL REACTORS; WATER COOLED REACTORS; WATER MODERATED REACTORS

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Notes
This CD-ROM can be used for WINDOWS 9x/NT/2000/ME/XP, MACINTOSH; Acrobat Reader is included; Data in PDF format, Folder Name KN, Paper ID KN-05.pdf; 34 refs., 5 figs.