Quantification of severe accidents source terms of BWR 4 reactor with Mark I containment using source term code package

Abstract

Severe accident source terms of a nuclear power plant which employs a BWR4 reactor with a Mark I containment are quantified with the Source Term Code Package (STCP). Accident scenarios selected for source terms analyses are defined based on the Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) results of accident sequence grouping, containment responses, containment phenomenological event trees, and release category analyses of studies. Included in the paper is a brief description of the structure and major features of STCP together with the modifications made to the code package for the present analysis, the plant model adopted for the STCP source terms quantifications; a presentation and discussion of the source terms as predicted by the STCP for the ten accident sequences analyzed.