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Most codes for fault tree analysis in the public domain are available from the Argonne Code Center. EPRI codes are available under special arrangements SETS... 

W. M. Stacey, Jr. and J. R. Regis, VARl-lD A One Dimensional Variational Sensitivity Code," Argonne Nat. Lab. in preparation. Sec also Argonne Code Center Abstract No. 625. 

B. The Argonne Code Center and Related Program Libraries.324... 

A format for an official ANS program abstract was agreed upon and plans were made to include code abstracts submitted by authors in the Society s Nuclear Science and Engineering journal. Short notes and comments on codes and their use were to be directed to the Society s monthly newsletter editor for publication there. The U. S. Atomic Energy Commission gave its approval, and the Argonne Code Center began operation. 

Two major points of distinction between the Argonne Code Center and a number of program libraries in nonnuclear applications areas should be emphasized. These relate to the purpose, or goal, of the activity and the structure of the organization employed to achieve that goal. The Argonne center was formed as a cooperative venture by AEC laboratories and... 

APPENDIX A ARGONNE CODE CENTER ABSTRACT FORMAT... 

Keywords - This is a listing of the keywords associated with the program, supplied by the program author and/or Center based on the Argonne Code Center thesaurus. 

In modern reactor analysis, the calculations previously outlined are performed on computer codes specially written for the purpose. For most actual operating reactors, these computer codes are proprietary to the reactor vendors (or, in some cases, the utilities that own the reactor) and are not generally available to outside analysts. However, there are computer codes available from Reactor Safety Information Computational Center (RSICC), the computer code distribution center at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which can be used for reactor analysis. For the most part, the available computer codes are those that were developed at the various national laboratories (Oak Ridge National Laboratory [ORNL], Los Alamos National Laboratory [LANL], Argonne National Laboratory [ANL]), although some university and privately developed software is also available. 

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