Conveners
6.10 Other issues of code development and application
- Tanju Sofu (Argonne National Laboratory)
- Nastasia Mosunova (Nuclear Safety Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IBRAE RAN))
Dr
Acacia Brunett
(Argonne National Laboratory)
27/06/2017, 10:20
Track 6. Test Reactors, Experiments and Modeling and Simulations
ORAL
The United States has extensive experience with the design, construction, and operation of a variety of sodium cooled fast reactors (SFRs) over the last six decades. Despite the closure of various facilities, the U.S. continues to dedicate research and development (R&D) efforts to the design of novel experimental, prototype, and commercial facilities. Accordingly, in support of the rich...
Dr
Aydin Karahan
(Argonne National Laboratory)
27/06/2017, 10:40
Track 6. Test Reactors, Experiments and Modeling and Simulations
ORAL
The SAS4A safety analysis code has been extended to include mechanistic and physics-based models of U-Pu-Zr and U-Zr metallic fuel pins. The simulation of various phenomena such as metal fuel component migration, fission gas behavior, clad wastage formation, gas swelling induced axial fuel expansion, in-pin and ex-pin molten fuel relocation, and clad failure models has been significantly...
Dr
Colby Jensen
(Idaho National Laboratory)
27/06/2017, 11:00
Track 6. Test Reactors, Experiments and Modeling and Simulations
ORAL
The restart of the Transient REActor Test (TREAT) facility provides a unique opportunity to engage the fast reactor fuels community to reinitiate in-pile experimental safety studies. Historically, the TREAT facility played a critical role in characterizing the behavior of both metal and oxide fast reactor fuels under off-normal conditions, irradiating hundreds of fuel pins to support fast...
Mr
Tanju Sofu
(Argonne National Laboratory)
27/06/2017, 11:20
Track 6. Test Reactors, Experiments and Modeling and Simulations
ORAL
Under the Reactors Product Line of U.S. DOE’s Nuclear Energy Advanced Modeling and Simulation (NEAMS) program, 3-D, high-fidelity multi-physics simulation capabilities are being developed to address the needs of designers and analysts in studying advanced, non-water reactor systems in general, and SFRs in particular. Simulation-based High-fidelity Advanced Reactor Prototyping (SHARP) toolkit...
