Initiatives in Japan for the development of computer codes to be applied in the nuclear safety analyses and review

Suyama, Kenya

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Japan has long history of the nuclear energy development more than half century. Japan is one of the most advanced country in the field of nuclear power utilization. However, even now, Japan mainly rely on the computer codes developed in foreign countries, especially in US. And from several years ago, few computer codes developed in US are not opened to outside of US. From this sense of crisis, an initiative to promote development of computer codes for the safety review in Japan has been started by the cooperation among the government of Japan, the industry and the research institutes. In this seminar, the speaker will report the status and the details of this initiative and the trend of the computer program development in Japan Atomic Energy Agency.