Assessment of RELAP5/MOD2 Against a Natural Circulation Experiment in Nuclear Power Plant Borssele (NUREG/IA-0091, ECN-89-91)

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Date Published: July 1993

Prepared by:
L. Winters

Ministry of Social Affairs
Nuclear Inspectorate (KFD)
Netherlands Energy Research Foundation ECN
P.O. Box 1
1755 ZG Petten
The Netherlands

Prepared as part of:
The Agreement on Research Participation and Technical Exchange
under the International Thermal-Hydraulic Code Assessment
and Application Program (ICAP)

Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Washington, DC 20555-0001

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Abstract

As part of the ICAP (International Code Assessment and Applications Program) agreement between ECN (Netherlands Energy Research Foundation) and USNRC, ECN has performed a number of assessment calculations for the thermohydraulic system analysis code RELAP5/MOD2/36.05. This document describes the assessment of this computer program versus a natural circulation experiment as conducted at the Borssele Nuclear Power Plant. The results of this comparison show that the code RELAP5/MOD2 predicts well the natural circulation behaviour of Nuclear Power Plant Borssele.

The work has been sponsored by the Dutch Licensing Authority and ECN.