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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations Volume 2011, Article ID 326948, 11 pages doi:10.1155/2011/326948 Research Article Starting Point, Keys and Milestones of a Computer Code for the Simulation of the Behaviour of a Nuclear Fuel Rod Armando C. Marino1, 2 1 Comisi´on Nacional de Energ´ıa At´omica (CNEA), Centro At´omico Bariloche (CAB), Bariloche, R´ıo Negro, Argentina 2 Instituto Balseiro, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Bariloche, R´ıo Negro, Argentina Correspondence should be addressed to Armando C. Marino, marino@.ar Received 24 August 2010; Accepted 19 November 2010 ´ ˜ Academic Editor: Juan Pablo Ordonez Copyright © 2011 Armando C. Marino. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The BaCo code (“Barra Combustible”) was developed at the Atomic Energy National Commission of Argentina (CNEA) for the simulation of nuclear fuel rod behaviour under irradiation conditions. We present in this paper a brief description of the code and the strategy used for the development, improvement, enhancement, and validation of a BaCo during the last 30 years. “Extreme case analysis”, parametric (or sensitivity), probabilistic (or statistic) analysis plus the analysis of the fuel performance (full core analysis) are the tools developed in the structure of BaCo in order to improve the understanding of the burnup extension in the Atucha I NPP, and the design of advanced fuel elements as CARA and CAREM. The 3D additional tools of BaCo can enhance the understanding of the fuel rod behaviour, the fuel design, and the safet