AER Working Group D on VVER Safety Analysis – Report of the 2017 Meeting

The AER Working Group D on VVER reactor safety analysis held its 26th meeting in Erlan-gen, Germany, during the period 10-11 May, 2017. The meeting was hosted by AREVA Germany and was held in conjunction with the 11th workshop on the OECD Benchmark for Uncertainty Analysis in Best-Estimate Modelling (UAM) for Design, Operation and Safety Analysis of LWRs. Altogether 11 participants attended the meeting of the working group D, all 11 from AER member organizations. The co-ordinator of the working group, Mr. S. Kliem, served as chairman of the meeting.
The meeting started with a general information exchange about the recent activities in the participating organizations.
The given presentations and the discussions can be attributed to the following topics:

• Safety analyses methods and results
• Code development and benchmarking
• Future activities

A list of the participants and a list of the handouts distributed at the meeting are attached to the report. The corresponding PDF-files of the handouts can be obtained from the chairman.