Spring 2017 CAMP Meeting,  Warsaw, Poland, 22.-24. 5. 2017

CAMP (Code Applications and Maintenance Program) is the largest research program conducted under the auspices of the United States federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission U.S. NRC since 1993. As part of the CAMP the development and exchange of experience on system software RELAP5 and Trace, software for neutron calculations PARCS and graphical interface SNAP took place. Based on an agreement with the U.S. NRC several administrative authorities, research organizations and industry representatives from more than 20 countries are cooperating in the CAMP program. Participants from Slovenia (JSI, Krško Nuclear Power Plant, and the Management Board of the Slovenian Nuclear Safety) are coordinated by the »Jožef Stefan« Institute.

CAMP Spring Meeting was divided into two parts, a technical and programming part. In the technical part at first were presented reports of some CAMP Member States (Belgium, Czech Republic, Croatia, Canada, Poland and Spain), which was followed by the status report on the software development of the U.S. NRC: TRACE, PARCS, RELAP5 and SNAP. In the end, the technical reports (16 in total) were presented. JSI presented a paper:

• "RELAP5 and TRACE Simulation of Hot Leg Break LOCA Experiment on LSTF" (Andrej Prošek).

Within the framework of the programming part of the meeting discussion was about the need for further development of computer programs and tools for the simulation of nuclear installations and proposals of contributions in kind, which are required for all participants in the CAMP (for Slovenia one contribution, the contribution for 2017 was already proposed at the previous meeting ). The new edition of the TRACE program is scheduled for summer 2017.

This year's spring CAMP meeting, which took place from 22. - 24. 5. 2017 in Warsaw, Poland, was organized by the Polish Agency for Atomic Energy in cooperation with the U.S. NRC. The meeting was attended by approximately 60 representatives from 16 countries, including 20 from the host country. From JSI’s Reactor Engineering Division Dr. Andrej Prošek attended the meeting.