Development of severe accident analysis code SAMPSON in IMPACT project

Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1076-1088

  Ujita, Hiroshi ^a   Satoh, Nobuhide ^a   Naitoh, Masanori ^a   Hidaka, Masataka ^b   Shirakawa, Noriyuki ^c   Yamagishi, Makoto ^d  

^a Nuclear Power Engineering Corp   (Japan)

^b HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

^c TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^d MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Candling; Computer codes; Computerized simulation; Crust forming; Ex vessel phenomena; In vessel retention; Mechanistic model; Melting; Molten debris cooling; Nuclear fuels; Parallel processing; Reactor accidents; Reactor safety; Simulation code; System analysis

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; LOSS OF COOLANT ACCIDENTS; MELTING; NUCLEAR FUELS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PRESSURE VESSELS;

REACTOR SAFETY; SEVERE ACCIDENT ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE PACKAGE SAMPSON;

NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS;

EID: 0033349687     PISSN: 00223131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/18811248.1999.9726300     Document Type: Article

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