Verification test calculations for the Source Term Code Package

Technical Report · Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1986

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5538258· OSTI ID:5538258

Denning, R S; Wooton, R O; Alexander, C A; Curtis, L A; Cybulskis, P; Gieseke, J A; Jordan, H; Lee, K W; Nicolosi, S L

The purpose of this report is to demonstrate the reasonableness of the Source Term Code Package (STCP) results. Hand calculations have been performed spanning a wide variety of phenomena within the context of a single accident sequence, a loss of all ac power with late containment failure, in the Peach Bottom (BWR) plant, and compared with STCP results. The report identifies some of the limitations of the hand calculation effort. The processes involved in a core meltdown accident are complex and coupled. Hand calculations by their nature must deal with gross simplifications of these processes. Their greatest strength is as an indicator that a computer code contains an error, for example that it doesn't satisfy basic conservation laws, rather than in showing the analysis accurately represents reality. Hand calculations are an important element of verification but they do not satisfy the need for code validation. The code validation program for the STCP is a separate effort. In general the hand calculation results show that models used in the STCP codes (e.g., MARCH, TRAP-MELT, VANESA) obey basic conservation laws and produce reasonable results. The degree of agreement and significance of the comparisons differ among the models evaluated. 20 figs., 26 tabs.

• Research Organization: Battelle Columbus Labs., OH (United States)
• OSTI ID: 5538258
• Report Number(s): NUREG/CR-4656; BMI-2140; ON: TI86901579
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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