Session I: Licensing Framework and Best Estimate Plus Uncertainty (part 2 of 2)
• Comprehensive Set of Acceptance Criteria for Deterministic Safety Analysis
• Relevant Aspects for BEPU Applications in SAR
o Multi-Physics Coupling
o Role of I&C
o Connection with FSAR Chapter 16 and EOP
o Connection with Chapter 19
o Consistency Attribute of BEPU in SAR
o Safety Margins, Risk and BEPU
• Current Issues in Digital I&C System Licensing Around the World Impacting on Safety Margins and Economics
• Safety Analysis Issues Associated with Implementation of New Generation Reactors
• Applicability of IAEA Safety Standards for SMRs
Session V: Uncertainty Analysis: Objectives and Methods (part 2 of 2)
• GRS Method for Uncertainty and Sensitivity Evaluation of Code Results and Applications
o Demonstration of the Software System for Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analyses (SUSA)
• CIAU (Code with the capability of Internal Assessment of Uncertainty) Method for Uncertainty Evaluation of Code Results
o The Ideas at the Basis of CIAU
o The CIAU Method: The Development Tool and the Application Tool
o Extension of the CIAU Methodology to 3D Neutron Kinetics/Thermal-hydraulics Coupled Codes: CIAU-TN
o CIAU Software
• A Predictive Modeling Methodology: The CASUALIDAD (Code with the capability of Adjoint Sensitivity and Uncertainty
AnaLysis by Internal Data ADjustment and assimilation) method
Session VI: Procedures for a Consistent Application of a BEPU Method in Licensing
• SCCRED Methodology for BEPU application in a NPP Licensing Process. Overview
• The Qualification Process of a NPP Evaluation Model in SCCRED, Part 1. The Validation of Code and of Nodalization Techniques
• The Qualification Process of a NPP Evaluation Model in SCCRED, Part 2. The Similarity Analysis and the Kv Scaled Calculation
Session VII: BEPU Applications in Safety Analysis and Licensing Framework
• Role and Importance of BEPU Safety Analysis in Licensing of LWRs
• Westinghouse Realistic Large Break LOCA Methodologies: Evolution from Response Surface Methods to Statistical Sampling Technique
• A Paradigm for Realistic Large Break LOCA Methodology
• GEH Techniques for Establishing and Confirming Uncertainties for Transient and Accident Applications
• BEPU applications for VVER
• Full BEPU Application for Chapter 15 of Atucha-2 NPP
• Data Management, Statistics and Trends in Deploying BEPU Industry Applications: An Overview
• From a Conservative Approach to a BEPU Implementation for Spent Nuclear Fuel Characterisation and
Safety Assessment from the Perspective of Geological Disposal
Session VIII: Reactor Physics and Fuel Performance Experiments and Uncertainty Analysis
• International Reactor Physics Experiment Evaluation (IRPhE)
• Reactor Simulations with Nuclear Data Uncertainties
• Uncertainty Methods for Reactivity Events
• International Fuel Performance Experiments (IFPE) database
• Development of Accident-Tolerant Fuel (ATF)
• Importance of Uncertainty Quantification in Nuclear Fuel Behavior Modelling and Simulation
• US NRC’s Regulatory, Licensing and Technical Aspects of Fuel Performance, Transients and Accidents Analyses at NPPs
Session IX: Multi-Physics Multi-Scale Simulations and BEPU
• Experiences in Multi-Physics and Multi-Scale Simulation Tool Development
• Consideration of Uncertainty Propagation in Coupled Code Systems
• Uncertainty Quantification In Severe Accident Analysis
• BEPU Methods using CFD Codes - Progress made within OECD-WGAMA CFD Activities
• I&C Systems Simulation in Best Estimate Plus Uncertainty Safety Analysis