Market-Based and System-Wide Fuel Cycle Optimization

Wilson, Paul Philip Hood; Scopatz, Anthony; Gidden, Matthew; Carlsen, Robert; Mouginot, Baptiste; Flanagan, Robert

doi:10.2172/1363866

Title: Market-Based and System-Wide Fuel Cycle Optimization

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This work introduces automated optimization into fuel cycle simulations in the Cyclus platform. This includes system-level optimizations, seeking a deployment plan that optimizes the performance over the entire transition, and market-level optimization, seeking an optimal set of material trades at each time step. These concepts were introduced in a way that preserves the flexibility of the Cyclus fuel cycle framework, one of its most important design principles.

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Wilson, Paul Philip Hood ^[1]; Scopatz, Anthony ^[2]; Gidden, Matthew ^[1]; Carlsen, Robert ^[1]; Mouginot, Baptiste ^[1]; Flanagan, Robert ^[2]

Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (United States)

Publication Date:: 2017-06-13

Research Org.:: Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE), Fuel Cycle Technologies (NE-5)

OSTI Identifier:: 1363866

Report Number(s):: DOE-UW-0000673
TRN: US1702292

DOE Contract Number:: NE0000673

Resource Type:: Technical Report

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS; 97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING; FUEL CYCLE; OPTIMIZATION; FUELS; MARKET; TRADE; nuclear fuel cycles; optimization; agent-based simulation

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                    Wilson, Paul Philip Hood, Scopatz, Anthony, Gidden, Matthew, Carlsen, Robert, Mouginot, Baptiste, and Flanagan, Robert. Market-Based and System-Wide Fuel Cycle Optimization.  United States: N. p., 2017. 
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                    Wilson, Paul Philip Hood, Scopatz, Anthony, Gidden, Matthew, Carlsen, Robert, Mouginot, Baptiste, & Flanagan, Robert. Market-Based and System-Wide Fuel Cycle Optimization.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.2172/1363866

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                    Wilson, Paul Philip Hood, Scopatz, Anthony, Gidden, Matthew, Carlsen, Robert, Mouginot, Baptiste, and Flanagan, Robert. 2017.  
        "Market-Based and System-Wide Fuel Cycle Optimization".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.2172/1363866.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1363866.

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