October - December 2001 Contents Highlight

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Cross-Cutting Activities

IAEA's severe accident analysis with MELCOR project progresses

A specialist from Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) met with a representative of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to discuss the effort to carry out severe accident analysis with MELCOR, an integrated severe accident progression computer code. Data for this project is currently being collected. There is a strong interest in coordinating this work with the U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) project, which uses the RELAP5 model, to make sure there is a consistent database and to ensure there is no duplication of effort. There has already been one joint meeting in Armenia to address this coordination and the next meeting is scheduled for January 2002 in Vienna. (Philip Pizzica, ANL, 630-252-4847; Walt Pasedag, NNSA, 301-903-3628)