MELCOR

This article is about computer code. For the fictional character in Tolkien's legendarium, see Melkor.

MELCOR is a fully integrated, engineering-level computer code developed by Sandia National Laboratories for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to model the progression of severe accidents in nuclear power plants. A broad spectrum of severe accident phenomena in both boiling and pressurized water reactors is treated in MELCOR in a unified framework. MELCOR applications include estimation of severe accident source terms, and their sensitivities and uncertainties in a variety of applications.

See also

• Nuclear engineering
• Monte Carlo method
• Nuclear reactor
• MCNP

External links

• SNL MELCOR website
• NRC "Obtaining MELCOR" site
• Wikiversity: Nuclear Engineering