Validation and benchmarking in support of ITER-FEAT safety analysis

This paper briefly describes the codes used for International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) safety analysis, including some information on their validation status, and summarizes some examples of validation and ve rification (V&V). V&V information is provided for the codes involved in acc ident analyses dealing with water coolant ingress into the vacuum vessel. R esults obtained by the MELCOR and INTRA codes, and the ISAS system, are com pared with the test results of the integrated ICE facility simulating water coolant ingress into the vacuum vessel. Benchmark calculation results of t he MELCOR, INTRA, and ISAS were compared with the results from other codes like PAX, CONSEN, TRAC-BF1, CATHARE. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rig hts reserved.