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TRACE Modeling Guidelines

Overview

NRC-Research/TRACE_guidance

Research and test reactors / experimental facilities¶

Placeholder — contributions needed

This section is an outline for collecting TRACE modeling experience for research and test reactors and experimental facilities. The topic headings below await contributions and review; they do not yet provide modeling recommendations.

Scope and applicable facilities¶

Differences from full-scale plant modeling¶

Break modeling¶

Break piping beyond the flow-restriction nozzle¶

Heat structures and ambient heat losses¶

Facility-specific modeling lessons¶

Validation and sensitivity assessments¶

Supporting references and source material¶

Open questions and proposed guidance updates¶

CCFL sensitivity summary — existing assessments using test-facility data.
PWR break modeling.
PWR heat structures.

These pages provide related background; they are not a substitute for the facility-specific guidance to be developed here.