Reactor analysis support package (RASP). Volume 1. Introduction and overview. Final report

Technical Report · Tue Apr 01 04:00:00 EST 1986

OSTI ID:5859879

Sorensen, J M ^[1]

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1. ed.

The experience of recent years has demonstrated an ever-increasing need for utilities operating nuclear power plants to have the means to re-analyze those postulated events that form the bases for plant operation or safety design. The Reactor Analysis Support Package (RASP) provides an integrated, interlinked, and validated code package satisfying a wide range of nuclear utility applications. RASP consolidates existing core physics, thermal-hydraulics, and fuel performance computer codes into an integrated and self-consistent system. The RASP project also involves producing several guideline documents and conducting seminars/workshops to assist the utilities in applying the RASP code package. This report provides a RASP overview that is useful both as an introduction for the inexperienced nuclear power plant analyst and as a reference guide for analysis staff management and the experienced analyst. The discussions of potential RASP applications, analysis qualification, reload licensing evaluations, and quality assurance should also be useful to utility management who are planning their staffing requirements. An effort was made to keep this report as succinct as practicable while still providing the level of detail adequate to satisfy the report's objectives. 34 figs., 24 tabs.

• Research Organization: Levy (S.), Inc., Campbell, CA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5859879
• Report Number(s): EPRI-NP-4498-Vol.1; ON: TI86920294
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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