Current status and problems of computer codes for nuclear safety evaluation

Suyama, Kenya; Hirao, Yoshihiro*; Sakamoto, Hiroki*

In the measures to pursue the world's highest level of safety of the nuclear installations, it is required to maintain the technical revel of the safety analyses codes as higher as possible. Because many of them were introduced from US at the initial phase of the nuclear energy introduction, development of computer codes and relevant tools in Japan have not been continued successfully. Accordingly, many old US-oriented code has been used. This manuscript presents the current status and the problems of computer codes for nuclear safety evaluation, and a scheme to introduce the computer codes of Japan, which in-cooperate the latest knowledge, in the scene of nuclear safety regulation and practical purpose.