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’Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house
No electrons were flowing through even my mouse.
All devices were plugged by the chimney with care
With the hope that St. Nikola Tesla would share.
Kazunori Sasaki, Naotaka Terashita, Takamichi Ogino
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A pressurized water reactor plant analyzer code (NUPAC-1) has been developed to apply to an operator support system or an advanced training simulator. The simulation code must produce reasonably accurate results as well as run in a fast mode for realizing functions such as anomaly detection, estimation of unobservable plant internal states, and prediction of plant state trends. The NUPAC-1 code adopts fast computing methods, i.e., the table fitting method of the state variables, time-step control, and calculation control of heat transfer coefficients, in order to attain accuracy and fast-running capability. The NUPAC-1 results are compared with the RELAP5/MOD2 results to assess the accuracy for accident analyses such as loss of coolant, feedwater line break, and steam generator tube rupture. The fast computing methods had a negligibly small effect on accuracy and contributed to fast-running capability. The NUPAC-1 code can be applied to the operator support system and the advanced training simulator as a two-phase simulation code.