NEAMS update quarterly report for January - March 2012.
Description/Abstract
Quarterly highlights are: (1) The integration of Denovo and AMP was demonstrated in an AMP simulation of the thermo-mechanics of a complete fuel assembly; (2) Bison was enhanced with a mechanistic fuel cracking model; (3) Mechanistic algorithms were incorporated into various lower-length-scale models to represent fission gases and dislocations in UO2 fuels; (4) Marmot was improved to allow faster testing of mesoscale models using larger problem domains; (5) Component models of reactor piping were developed for use in Relap-7; (6) The mesh generator of Proteus was updated to accept a mesh specification from Moose and equations were formulated for the intermediate-fidelity Proteus-2D1D module; (7) A new pressure solver was implemented in Nek5000 and demonstrated to work 2.5 times faster than the previous solver; (8) Work continued on volume-holdup models for two fuel reprocessing operations: voloxidation and dissolution; (9) Progress was made on a pyroprocessing model and the characterization of pyroprocessing emission signatures; (10) A new 1D groundwater waste transport code was delivered to the used fuel disposition (UFD) campaign; (11) Efforts on waste form modeling included empirical simulation of sodium-borosilicate glass compositions; (12) The Waste team developed three prototypes for modeling hydride reorientation in fuel cladding during very long-term fuel storage; (13) A benchmark demonstration problem (fission gas bubble growth) was modeled to evaluate the capabilities of different meso-scale numerical methods; (14) Work continued on a hierarchical up-scaling framework to model structural materials by directly coupling dislocation dynamics and crystal plasticity; (15) New 'importance sampling' methods were developed and demonstrated to reduce the computational cost of rare-event inference; (16) The survey and evaluation of existing data and knowledge bases was updated for NE-KAMS; (17) The NEAMS Early User Program was launched; (18) The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Office of Regulatory Research was introduced to the NEAMS program; (19) The NEAMS overall software quality assurance plan (SQAP) was revised to version 1.5; and (20) Work continued on NiCE and its plug-ins and other utilities, such as Cubit and VisIt.
| DOI | 10.2172/1040692 |
|---|---|
| Creator/Author: | Bradley, K.S. ; Hayes, S. ; Pointer, D. ; Summers, R. ; Sadasivan, P. ; Sun, X. ; Bernholdt, D. ; Miller, M. ; Stewart, J. (Nuclear Engineering Division) ; (ORNL) ; (INL) ; (LLNL) ; (ORNL) ; (SNL) ; (PNNL) |
| Publication Date: | 2012 May 10 |
| OSTI Identifier: | OSTI ID: 1040692 |
| Report Number(s): | ANL-NE-12/20 |
| DOE Contract Number: | DE-AC02-06CH11357 |
| DOI: | 10.2172/1040692 |
| Other Number(s): | TRN: US1202537 |
| Resource Type: | Technical Report |
| Research Org: | Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) |
| Sponsoring Org: | NE |
| Subject: | 11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS; 12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; ALGORITHMS; BENCHMARKS; BUBBLE GROWTH; BUILDING MATERIALS; DISLOCATIONS; DISSOLUTION; FISSION; GASES; GLASS; HYDRIDES; KNOWLEDGE BASE; PLASTICITY; PROTEUS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; REPROCESSING; SAMPLING; STORAGE; WASTE FORMS; WASTES |
| Country of Publication: | United States |
| Language: | ENGLISH |
| Update Date: | 2012 Dec 05 |
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