Nuclear Plant Analyzer development at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory

Conference · Tue Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1985

OSTI ID:6277993

Laats, E T; Beelman, R J; Charlton, T R; Hampton, N L; Burtt, J D

The Nuclear Plant Analyzer (NPA) is a state-of-the-art safety analysis and engineering tool being used to address key nuclear power plant safety issues. The NPA has been developed to integrate the NRC's computerized reactor behavior simulation codes such as RELAP5, TRAC-BWR, and TRAC-PWR, with well-developed computer graphics programs and large repositories of reactor design and experimental data. An important feature of the NAP is the capability to allow an analyst to redirect a RELAP5 or TRAC calculation as it progresses through its simulated scenario. The analyst can have the same power plant control capabilities as the operator of an actual plant. The NPA resides on the dual CDS Cyber-176 mainframe computers at the INEL and is being converted to operate on a Cray-1S computer at the LANL. The subject of this paper is the program conducted at the INEL.

• Research Organization: EG and G Idaho, Inc., Idaho Falls (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC07-76ID01570
• OSTI ID: 6277993
• Report Number(s): EGG-M-27685; CONF-8510173-38; ON: TI86004118
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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