CONUSAF PRESENTATION & FOUNDING MOTIVATIONS

CONUSAF is an international network joining code applicants or users in the area of Nuclear Thermal-hydraulics. Following the launching and the successful operation of two previously proposed networks called FONESYS and SILENCE (respectively joining developers of thermal-hydraulic codes and experimentalists in nuclear thermal-hydraulics), CONUSAF aims at filling the gap in the area of code applications in nuclear reactor safety and design. CONUSAF is going to be managed by Texas A&M University in United States with technical contribution provided by international Institutions including University of Pisa in Italy, KAERI in Korea and CEA in France. Typical topics addressed in CONUSAF will include (not an exhaustive list) Uncertainty, BEPU, licensing of NPP, Passive System (including related reliability), SMR operation, V&V (and newly proposed V&V&C), Scaling, Accident Analysis and Chapter 15 of FSAR. Issues proposed by participant organizations will be considered for CONUSAF activities. CONUSAF is expected to be formally established by October 31, 2018. All Institutions involved with code applications are invited to be members of CONUSAF.