UK HPR1000 Generic Design Assessment - ASTEC Familiarisation Course

ONR requires a contractor to provide a familiarity training course in the ASTEC code. This should be delivered to relevant ONR staff at our Bootle offices in Liverpool, UK. The training will be delivered to between 5 and 10 ONR Inspectors, with a range of backgrounds in Fault Studies, Severe Accident Analysis and Chemistry, amongst other disciplines.

Code capability;

Code operability - i.e. a demonstration of how the code works;

Code limitations;

Code verification and validation, including benchmark tests and international experiments;

Any examples of where the code has been used directly to support a nuclear power plant safety case or as part of independent confirmatory analysis;

Any notable differences or limitations between ASTEC and widely used severe accident codes (e.g. MAAP and MELCOR);

An overview of the technical support available (e.g. user groups, code manuals, international community etc.);

Strengths and weaknesses of the code;

Any recent code developments or areas identified for future development;

Capability of coupling to other codes;

Good practice of configuration control of user input and output;

Important user assumptions.