MELCOR 1.8.2 Analyses in Support of ITER’s RPrS

Technical Report · Tue Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 2008

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/926323· OSTI ID:926323

Merrill, Brad J

The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) Program is performing accident analyses for ITER’s “Rapport Préliminaire de Sûreté” (Report Preliminary on Safety - RPrS) with a modified version of the MELCOR 1.8.2 code. The RPrS is an ITER safety document required in the ITER licensing process to obtain a “Décret Autorisation de Construction” (a Decree Authorizing Construction - DAC) for the ITER device. This report documents the accident analyses performed by the US with the MELCOR 1.8.2 code in support of the ITER RPrS effort. This work was funded through an ITER Task Agreement for MELCOR Quality Assurance and Safety Analyses. Under this agreement, the US was tasked with performing analyses for three accident scenarios in the ITER facility. Contained within the text of this report are discussions that identify the cause of these accidents, descriptions of how these accidents are likely to proceed, the method used to analyze the consequences of these accidents, and discussions of the transient thermal hydraulic and radiological release results for these accidents.

• Research Organization: Idaho National Laboratory (INL)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE - SC
• DOE Contract Number: AC07-99ID13727
• OSTI ID: 926323
• Report Number(s): INL/EXT-08-13668
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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