Validation of SPARC, a suppression pool aerosol capture model

Conference · Sun Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1985

OSTI ID:6495997

Owczarski, P C; Winegardner, W K

A study of the potential for atmospheric release in hypothetical severe core melt accidents in BWRs with suppression pools was recently completed using a prototype of the SPARC code. The process of validating SPARC using an experimental data base is the concern of this paper.

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest Labs., Richland, WA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 6495997
• Report Number(s): PNL-SA-13287; CONF-851019-7; ON: TI86002823
• Resource Relation: Conference: International symposium on source term evaluation for accident conditions, Columbus, OH, USA, 28 Oct 1985
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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