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Reports: Israel destroyed active nuclear weapons research facility in Iran
U.S. and Israeli officials are now confirming that an October 25 Israeli attack in Iran destroyed an active top secret facility for nuclear weapons research, Axios reports. The strike is said to have significantly hampered efforts by Iran to resume weapons research, despite ongoing denials from the country’s leaders that there is an active weapons program.
Kazunori Sasaki, Naotaka Terashita, Takamichi Ogino
Nuclear Technology | Volume 85 | Number 3 | June 1989 | Pages 259-273
Technical Paper | Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT89-A34248
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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.