On April 7, 2007, in this blog, I reported that the following reference was not available to the public. I was wrong. It became available on April 3, 2007. Apparently it was unintentionally referenced in the ACRS letter of March 22, 2007, and that led to its release to the public. The document is dated January 31, 2007. Why the long delay in its release? Below is extracted from page 1 of the 5 page document. And it reveals that after decades of spending, TRACE is a mess!
Memo to F. Gillespie,
TRACE V5.0 Documentation and Support - ML070260005. January 31, 2007
MEMORANDUM TO: Frank Gillespie, Executive DirectorAdvisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards
FROM: Farouk Eltawila, Director /RA/Division of Risk Assessment and Special ProjectsOffice of Nuclear Regulatory Research
SUBJECT: TRACE V5.0 DOCUMENTATION AND SUPPORT
We have recently completed work on TRACE Version 5.0 and have made it available to the NRC staff to finalize assessment for this version and perform audit calculations. This is an important but not necessarily final step in the TRACE consolidation and development effort that has been ongoing for several years. The next steps in this development are to complete the documentation and provide the support necessary to make TRACE an efficient and effective tool for agency use.
The purpose of this memorandum is to
a) summarize the current status of TRACE development,
b) identify specific documentation and the expected completion dates,
c) communicate our plans for a peer review
d) list the activities to help integrate TRACE into the regulatory process
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