Current status of MELCOR 2.2 for fusion safety analyses
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F26722445%3A_____%2F23%3AN0000026" target="_blank" >RIV/26722445:_____/23:N0000026 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0920379623004519" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0920379623004519</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fusengdes.2023.113869" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.fusengdes.2023.113869</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Current status of MELCOR 2.2 for fusion safety analyses
Original language description
MELCOR is an integral code developed by Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) for the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC) to perform severe accident analyses of Light Water Reactors (LWR). More recently, MELCOR capabilities are being extended also to analyze non-LWR fission technologies. Within the European MELCOR User Group (EMUG), organized in the framework of USNRC Cooperative Severe Accident Research Program (CSARP), an activity on the evaluation of the applicability of MELCOR 2.2 for fusion safety analyses has been launched and it has been coordinated by ENEA. The aim of the activity was to identify the physical models to be possibly implemented in MELCOR 2.2 necessary for fusion safety analyses, and to check if those models are already available in MELCOR 1.8.6 for fusion version, developed by Idaho National Laboratory (INL). From this activity, a list of modeling needs emerged from the safety analyses of fusion-related installations have been identified and described. Then, the importance of the various needs, intended as the priority for model implementation in the MELCOR 2.2 code, has been evaluated according to the technical expert judgement of the authors. In the present paper, the identified modeling needs are discussed. The ultimate goal would be to propose to have a single integrated MELCOR 2.2 code release capable to cover both fission and fusion applications.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10303 - Particles and field physics
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/9D22001" target="_blank" >9D22001: Implementation of activities described in the Roadmap to Fusion during Horizon Europe through a joint programme of the members of the EUROfusion consortium</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Fusion Engineering and Design
ISSN
0920-3796
e-ISSN
1873-7196
Volume of the periodical
194
Issue of the periodical within the volume
June
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
7
Pages from-to
1-7
UT code for WoS article
001025895200001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85162853250