Jackie East
Westinghouse Safety Management Solutions, Inc.

Julie Gregory
Sandia National Laboratory

1.0 IH CM point

The MELCOR Accident Consequence Code System (MACCS) was developed under the sponsorship of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory commission to simulate the accidental release of a plume of radiological materials to the atmosphere and estimate consequences associated with the release. The principal phenomena considered in MACCS are atmospheric transport and plume depletion, exposure pathway assessment and subsequent dose analyses, mitigative actions based on dose projection, early and latent health effects, and economic costs.

The hands-on portion of MACCS2 applications includes probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) and radiological dose assessment for safety analyses and environmental studies. This class will target the types of analyses required for SAR and BIO support, with guidance toward problems that consider the food ingestion and health effect risks.