Who is participating in the SOARCA project?
The NRC is conducting the SOARCA project with assistance from Sandia National Laboratories (SNL). SNL is the principal NRC contractor for severe reactor accident research and has developed much of the computer modeling to be used in this study. At the NRC, the study is a joint effort among the Offices of Nuclear Regulatory Research, Nuclear Security and Incident Response, and Nuclear Reactor Regulation. Conducting the SOARCA project requires a wide array of disciplines. Staff working on the project include experts in reactor accident probabilistic assessment, system engineering, severe core damage accident phenomena and modeling, emergency planning, and offsite consequences. In addition, information will be required from the participating operating power plants selected for the study to obtain realistic input for the calculations.
