McSAFE - High Performance Monte Carlo methods for safety demonstration

The main objective of the McSAFE project is the development of the Monte Carlo based multiphysics coupled methodologies for reactor analysis and safety investigations of different reactor systems. Key-research areas are e.g. advanced depletion methods, optimal coupling of MC-codes to thermalhydraulic solvers, time-dependent Monte Carlo and methods and algorithms for massively parallel simulations. The project has started in September 2017 under the coordination of KIT. Among the other partners are European research institutes and technical support organizations (VTT, JRC, CEA, HZDR, NRI, KTH,WOOD), electricity providers (CEZ, PreussenElektra) and consultants (DNC). The software developed within the project should allow for the high precision evaluation of core safety parameters and will be applicable also to VVER reactor types.