Interface requirements to couple thermal hydraulics codes to severe accident codes: ICARE/CATHARE

Conference · Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1997

OSTI ID:544396

Camous, F; Jacq, F; Chatelard, P ^[1]

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1. IPSN/DRS/SEMAR CE-Cadarache, St Paul Lez Durance (France); and others

In order to describe with the same code the whole sequence of severe LWR accidents, up to the vessel failure, the Institute of Protection and Nuclear Safety has performed a coupling of the severe accident code ICARE2 to the thermalhydraulics code CATHARE2. The resulting code, ICARE/CATHARE, is designed to be as pertinent as possible in all the phases of the accident. This paper is mainly devoted to the description of the ICARE2-CATHARE2 coupling.

• Research Organization: US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Washington, DC (United States). Div. of Systems Technology; Nuclear Energy Agency, 75 - Paris (France); SCIENTECH, Inc., Boise, ID (United States)
• OSTI ID: 544396
• Report Number(s): NUREG/CP-0159; NEA/CSNI/R-(97)4; CONF-961192-; ON: TI97008508; TRN: 98:000234
• Resource Relation: Conference: Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD)/Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) workshop on transient thermal-hydraulic codes requirements, Annapolis, MD (United States), 5-8 Nov 1996; Other Information: PBD: Jul 1997; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the OECD/CSNI workshop on transient thermal-hydraulic and neutronic codes requirements; Ebert, D.; PB: 824 p.
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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