NEA-1291 TRANS-ACE.

TRANS-ACE, Radioactive Materials Transport in Reprocessing Plant Fire Accident

NAME OR DESIGNATION OF PROGRAM, COMPUTER, DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM OR FUNCTION, METHOD OF SOLUTION, RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PROBLEM, TYPICAL RUNNING TIME, UNUSUAL FEATURES OF THE PROGRAM, RELATED AND AUXILIARY PROGRAMS, STATUS, REFERENCES, MACHINE REQUIREMENTS, LANGUAGE, OPERATING SYSTEM UNDER WHICH PROGRAM IS EXECUTED, OTHER PROGRAMMING OR OPERATING INFORMATION OR RESTRICTIONS, NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHORS, MATERIAL, CATEGORIES

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1. NAME OR DESIGNATION OF PROGRAM: TRANS-ACE.

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2. COMPUTERS

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Program name	Package id	Status	Status date
TRANS-ACE	NEA-1291/01	Report	26-AUG-1994

Machines used:

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3. DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM OR FUNCTION

TRANS-ACE has been developed for safety evaluation of the cell-ventilation system of reprocessing plants under postulated fire or explosion accident conditions. The code calculates pressure, temperature, material transport, and radioactive material release through the high efficiency air filter (HEPA filter).

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4. METHOD OF SOLUTION:

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5. RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PROBLEM:

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6. TYPICAL RUNNING TIME:

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7. UNUSUAL FEATURES OF THE PROGRAM:

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8. RELATED AND AUXILIARY PROGRAMS

The functions of TRANS-ACE have been added to the one-dimensional compressible heat flow analysis code EVENT.

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9. STATUS

Package ID	Status date	Status
NEA-1291/01	26-AUG-1994	Report Only

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10. REFERENCES:

NEA-1291/01, included references:

- G. Nishio, H. Abe and Y. Naito:
  Development of the Computer Code TRANS-ACE for Analysing Radio
  active Materials Transport in Reprocessing Plants under Accidental
  Conditions
  JAERI-M 89-014 (23 January, 1989) (in Japanese)
- Hitoshi Abe, Gunji Nishio and Yoshitaka Naito:
  Computer Code TRANS-ACE Predicting for Fire and Explosion
  Accidents in Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Plants
  JAERI-M 93-220 (November 1993)

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11. MACHINE REQUIREMENTS:

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12. PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE(S) USED

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13. OPERATING SYSTEM UNDER WHICH PROGRAM IS EXECUTED:

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14. OTHER PROGRAMMING OR OPERATING INFORMATION OR RESTRICTIONS:

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15. NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHORS

    Gunji NISHIO, Hitoshi ABE, Yoshitaka NAITO
    Department of Fuel Safety Research
    Tokai Establishment
    Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute
    Tokai-mura, Naka-gun, Ibaraki-ken
    JAPAN

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16. MATERIAL AVAILABLE

NEA-1291/01

report JAERI-M 89-014 (23/1/89 in Japanese) REPPT
report JAERI-M 93-220 (November 1993) REPPT

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17. CATEGORIES

G. Radiological Safety, Hazard and Accident Analysis

Keywords: accidents, fires, radioactive aerosols, radioactive release, reprocessing.