WELCOME TO THE RAMP 2017 FALL USER MEETING

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1 WELCOME TO THE RAMP 2017 FALL USER MEETING

2 Welcome to the 2017 Fall RAMP Users Meeting Enhancing Radiation Protection Worldwide through Collaborative Code Development and Maintenance Michael Weber Director of Nuclear Regulatory Research Rockville, Maryland, United States October 16-20,

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4 Welcome RAMP Partners Welcome Over 1000 registered RAMP Users Over 70 participants at this RAMP Meeting Representatives from 10 Countries Australia, Canada, China, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, Tanzania, United Arab Emirates, US Ute Mountain Ute Tribe US Federal Agencies EPA, DOH, FEMA, CDC, NRC, DOE, Army, Navy State of Ohio Universities, Medical Professionals, Nuclear Power Plant Professionals 4 4

5 Nuclear Regulatory Research Mandated by Congress Three technical divisions and a support organization: Division of Engineering Division of Risk Analysis Division of Systems Analysis Program Management, Policy Development & Analysis Staff About 200 engineers, scientists, analysts, and support staff. ~ 30% M.S. and 30% Ph.D. About $40 M funding 5 5

6 Research Mission Conduct confirmatory and anticipatory research necessary to ensure nuclear safety and security Provide specialized technical expertise and tools Partner with national labs, commercial contractors, universities, other government agencies, industry organizations, and international organizations Issue Commission and Congressionally mandated reports Assess and resolve Generic Issues

7 Key Research Areas Thermal-Hydraulics Fuel and Core Severe Accident and Accident Consequences Radiation and Environmental Protection Risk Analysis Human Reliability and Human Factors Fire Safety External Hazards Materials Performance Structural Performance Digital Instrumentation & Control and Electrical Domestic and International Collaboration 7

8 Research Roles Licensees and applicants have the primary responsibility for nuclear safety and security NRC conducts confirmatory and anticipatory research to confirm safety and security NRC develops tools, codes, and information to confirm safety and security NRC does not conduct developmental research

9 Strong international cooperation International Research Collaboration 100+ bilateral or multilateral agreements with over 20 countries (9 Agreements for RAMP) Cooperative Research Programs Shared insights and resources Wide range of technical activities, including Fukushima Activities Halden Reactor Project Zirconium Fire during Lossof-coolant Accident Study Fire Research Halden Lab

10 Cooperative Research Programs RAMP: Radiation Protection Code Analysis and Maintenance Program to exchange information on radiation protection and dose assessment codes. CSARP: Cooperative Severe Accident Research Program to exchange information on severe accident safety issues related to reactor, spent fuel pool, and plant systems. CAMP: Code Applications and Maintenance Program to exchange information on thermal-hydraulic safety issues related to reactor and plant systems. SGTIP: Steam Generator Tube Integrity Program provides data and analysis for predicting the ability of degraded steam generator tubes to withstand normal operating and accident conditions.

11 Thank you for coming! Participate actively Share your insights Work together for safety Build networks Strengthen collaboration Enjoy Washington Your Role

12 THE RAMP Program Michael Case, Director Division of Systems Analysis Rockville, MD October th,

13 AGENDA Who we are at the US NRC What is RAMP/Need for RAMP Computer Codes in RAMP Benefits of RAMP RAMP Website RAMP Partners What is New and Future Activities

14 Division of Systems Analysis

15 What Is RAMP?/Need for RAMP Computer Code Management Program: Streamline updates/ recognized code issues Incorporating the latest accepted state of the art models Prioritize technical updates Achieve consistency in documentation Fiscally responsible by leveraging group dynamics Implement centralized and consistent management and control structure Leverage the U.S. NRC expertise in member country activities Customer relationship management Obtain user-endorsed roadmap for codes

16 Benefits to RAMP Partnerships Larger user group: troubleshooting, forums, training Opportunity to gain expertise and request help from the code developers US DOE, DOD, EPA, NIST, etc and States Greater governmental HP community and ability to collaborate on governmental family of codes For South Africa RASCAL: Input Atmospheric Tower Information ARCON96: Helping with confirmatory analysis For Canada RASCAL: Candu Source Term MILDOS: Specialized training for Uranium Mills and Mining needs For Taiwan RASCAL: Inputting Reactor Source Term Information GENII: Decommissioning Examples 16

17 Dose Assessment Codes in RAMP Emergency Response NPP Licensing Environmental Code Other Dose Assessment Codes 17

18 RPB Code Development and Regulatory Applications 18

19 RAMP Website RAMP: 1000 members Each codes has its separate site What's new! RAMP User Meeting Information International Agreements Section 19

20 Current RAMP International Agreements We currently have 9 RAMP Agreements with these partners: South Africa Canada South Korea Taiwan UAE China Armenia Vietnam And our newest member Spain. We don t have an Agreement with the Australian regulator, but we are looking forward to them joining RAMP. 20

21 RAMP International Agreements and Activities Member contributions have saved NRC and Country resources and improved the codes. The larger user community help to identify code problems and improved modeling approaches. Examples include: Identifying code errors Plant modeling for new applications Improvement to code models 21

22 RAMP Users Meetings 2015: 1 st RAMP User Meeting US NRC 2016 RAMP Users Meetings South Africa, May 16-20, 2016 NRC Headquarters, October RAMP Users Meeting Taiwan, April 24-28, 2017 NRC Headquarters, October 16-20, RAMP Users Meeting UAE and Canada 2019 RAMP Users Meeting Working on it 22

23 Future Activities in RAMP Include Additional Codes: In talks with DOE for RESRAD, TurboFRMAC Updated Software Quality Assurance Program Maintain Code Development Ensure Compatible platform Consistent Documentation Develop online training and information modules More RASCAL Modules, VARSKIN, RADTRAD Health Physics and Radiation Safety Training Meeting regulatory requirements Security and Safeguards Combine Codes for Greater Efficiencies 23

24 Schedule at a Glance 24

25 For the meeting. I also challenge You To learn To participate To question To think outside of the box To bring forward suggestions for improvements To have fun To make new friends Again Welcome! We are glad you are here! 25

26 RAMP Codes & What Is New? Vered Shaffer, Ph. D. Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission 1

27 Dose Assessment Codes in RAMP Environmental NPP Licensing Emergency Response Code Other Dose Assessment Codes 2

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29 RASCAL (Radiological Assessment System for Consequence AnaLysis) Purpose: Fast running software used in radiological incidents to assess offsite dose consequences Uses: Response organizations for pre-release or plume phase of radiological release to atmosphere; to help inform or evaluate protective actions 4

30 RASCAL What s New? On-line Training Modules April 2017 RASCAL Fall 2017: includes international meteorological fetch RASCAL 5.0 Fall 2018: rewriting the code in JAVA to allow modularization Instructors: George Athey Athey Consulting Jeff Kowalczik, CHP U.S. NRC 5

31 RADTRAD (RADionuclide Transport, Removal And Dose Estimation) Purpose: Performs confirmatory dose calculations for design-basisaccidents at the exclusion area boundary, low population zone, and control room Uses: NRC staff verifies the plant s design and the licensee s offsite and control room dose calculations following a design-basis-accident 6

32 RADTRAD What s New? Fall 2018: restructuring RADTRAD-AC 5.0 into a more modern objectoriented design which would enhance the maintainability of the code for future programmers Regression testing for all code changes and updates performed on the RADTRAD-AC and automated testing of the updates and code changes to the SNAP/RADTRAD Plugin Instructor: William Arcieri Information Systems Laboratories, Inc. (ISL) 7

33 VARSKIN Purpose: calculate occupational dose to the skin resulting from exposure to radiation emitted from hot particles or other contamination on or near the skin over a contiguous 10 cm^2 of skin at a tissue depth of 0.007centimeters (7 mg/cm2). Uses: NRC staff uses the code to perform confirmatory calculations of licensees skin dose estimates from both electron and photon emissions as required by 10 CFR (c) 8

34 VARSKIN October 2017: VARSKIN online training module completed (on RAMP website) November 2017: Release of VARSKIN 6.0 Update to include: both ICPR 38 (1983) and ICRP 107 (2008) nuclide libraries Progeny are now automatically included with a simple check box activated by the user Next? Uncertainty analysis, eye dose calculations Instructors: David Hamby, Ph.D. Oregon State University Colby Mangini, Ph.D. Paragon Scientific, LLC 9

35 Gaseous And Liquid Effluent (GALE) Purpose: calculates the release of radioactive material in gaseous and liquid effluents. Uses: NRC performs independent assessments of license applications and amendments for existing plants (modifications to plant design or technical specification) to determine compliance with the requirements of Appendix I to 10 CFR Part

36 GALE Fall 2018 Release GALE 3.0 and complete update to NUREGs (PWR and BWR versions) Incorporating ANSI 18.1 standards RCL Source term Instructor: David Colameco Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) 11

37 MILDOS Purpose: used to estimate the radiological impacts of airborne emissions from uranium mining and milling facilities Uses: license applicants and U.S. NRC staff to perform routine radiological impact evaluations for various uranium recovery operations 12

38 MILDOS Added GUI for meteorological data overlay on maps Fall 2018 Improve in-situ recovery source terms, benchmark MILDOS models, and enhance UTM mapping Updating methodology for faster calculations Updating decay chain for Thorium/Uranium -232 Instructor: Bruce Biwer, Ph.D. Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) 13

39 Atmospheric Codes XOQDOQ is an atmospheric dispersion code used for routine operational releases. PAVAN is an atmospheric dispersion code used in design basis accident releases to the exclusion area boundary and outer boundary of the low population zone. ARCON96 is an atmospheric dispersion code used for design basis accident releases to the control room and technical support center. (RASCAL) Used by the NRC for New Reactor design basis reviews, Environmental Impact Statements and Safety Reviews to access impacts from routine releases. 14

40 Atmospheric Codes Fall 2018 ARCON96 Upgrade from original DOS user interface to Windows interface Create new addendum to NUREG/CR6331 Rev. 1 to capture updates Evaluate for Inclusion as a Toolbox Code in the DOE Safety Software Central Registry Instructor: Jeremy Rishel, Ph.D. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) 15

41 PiMAL (Phantom with Moving Arms and Legs) Purpose: conduct radiation external and internal dose assessments using realistic phantom postures. Uses: Users adjust the posture of the phantom, generate a corresponding input file for the Monte Carlo N-Particle (MNCP) radiation transport code, and perform radiation simulations for the dose calculations in MCNP. 16

42 PIMAL Fall 2017 publication of User Guide Spring 2018 Online training modules Spring 2018 install JAVA patches Instructor: possible use of PIMAL with Penelope and GEANT 2020 Shaheen Dewji, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) 17

43 HABIT - Primer Purpose: evaluation of Light-Water Reactor (LWR) control room habitability in the event of accidental spills of toxic chemicals or the accidental release of radionuclides, including noble gas Uses: NRC staff for control room habitability in an accident scenario Updates: Fall 2018 Release Habit 2.1, complete update to NUREG and Regulatory Guide, and complete V&V and benchmarking to the ALOHA code (EPA) 18

44 Remaining Codes GENII (primer) set of programs for estimating radionuclide concentrations in the environment and dose to humans from acute or chronic exposures from radiological releases to the environment or initial contamination conditions. D&D assesses compliance with the dose criteria of 10 CFR Part 20, Subpart E. on screening dose assessments to allow licensee s to perform simple estimates of the annual dose from residual radioactivity in soils and on building surfaces. Radiological toolbox (primer) - electronic handbook containing radiation safety data including control constants and coefficients, as well as models and formulas 19

45 RESRAD (RESidual RADioactive Materials) Purpose: Family of codes used to analyze human and biota radiation exposures from environmental contamination of residual radioactive materials Use: The codes are used worldwide by regulatory agencies, the risk assessment community, and universities in more than 100 countries 20

46 RESRAD Fall 2018 Expand the complexity of models to include solubility changes or revise RESRAD-OFFSITE input parameters Update default parameters values and distributions for RESRAD-ONSITE and -BUILD Evaluate the effect of new parameter values on the parameter sensitivity to dose Instructor: Charley Yu, Ph.D. Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) 21

47 Future Activities in RAMP RESRAD addition into RAMP: Spring 2018 Other codes in talks: CAP88, COMPLY, Turbo FRMAC, DCFPAK Updated Software Quality Assurance Program Maintain Code Development Ensure Compatible platform Consistent Documentation Develop online training and information modules More RASCAL Modules, VARSKIN, RADTRAD, PiMAL RAMP user group community feedback for continuing direction 22

48 How Codes Interact with each other? SOURCE TERM TRANSPORT/ PATHWAY DOSE Normal GALE PAVAN Air XOQDOQ ARCON Occupational Emergency Response Severe Accident Non-reactor Source Term DandD RADTRAD Total Body Organ/Skin Biota GASPAR Design Objectives RASCAL LADTAP Ground DandD Surface Total Body PAGS Safety Objectives Thyroid Dose Cancer Fatalities Risk Cancer Risk

49 Future Framework of RAMP codes SOURCE TERM TRANSPORT/ PATHWAY DOSE Normal GALE RADTRAD PAVAN Air XOQDOQ Biota LADTAP ARCON GASPAR Total Body Occupational Organ/Skin Design Objectives Emergency Response Severe Accident Nonreactor Source Term RASCAL DandD Ground Surface DandD Surface/ Ground Water Lakes/ Ocean Total Body PAGS Thyroid Dose Safety Objectives Cancer Risk DOSE TO BIOTA

50 Future Framework of NRC codes SOURCE TERM TRANSPORT/ PATHWAY DOSE Normal GALE RADTRAD PAVAN Air XOQDOQ Biota LADTAP ARCON GASPAR Total Body Occupational Organ/Skin Design Objectives Emergency Response Severe Accident Nonreactor Source Term RASCAL RESRAD DandD Ground Surface DandD Surface/ Ground Water Lakes/ Ocean Total Body PAGS Thyroid Dose Safety Objectives Cancer Risk DOSE TO BIOTA

51 Want access to more codes? Send an updated nondisclosure agreement for the additional codes 26

52 Questions? 27