September 2000 Highlight

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Cross-Cutting Activities

Slavutych Laboratory hosts thermohydaulics code training

From August 12 through September 2, trainers from Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory conducted RELAP5/MOD3.2 computer code training at the Slavutych Laboratory for International Research and Technology. Participants included three staff members from the Slavutych Laboratory, five from Ukraine, six from Armenia, and two from Leningrad NPP in Russia. The purpose of the workshop was to introduce the participants to reactor safety analysis using the RELAP5/MOD3.2 code.

The workshop was designed for new RELAP5 users and included both lectures and hands-on exercises. The exercises progressed from developing simple models with a few components to using VVER plant models to perform design basis accident simulations and analyses.  Lectures addressed code features, modeling guidelines, and quality assurance and documentation of input models and analyses. The trainers provided instruction and led exercises in configuration control and modification of the RELAP5 code for the participants from the Slavutych Laboratory.  The trainers also provided the RELAP5/MOD3.2 code to participants whose organizations had not previously received the code. (Dennis Meyers, DOE, 301-903-1418; Mark Petri, ANL, 630-252-3719)