Summary of BISON Milestones: NEAMS FY2020 Report
This summary report contains an overview of work performed under the work package entitled "FY2020 NEAMS Advanced Fuels Performance'', which is focused on the development and support of the fuel performance code BISON. The second chapter lists FY20 milestones titles, completion schedule, and milestone level. Subsequent chapters summarize and demonstrate completion of the milestones. The last chapter outlines FY21 proposed future work. In FY20, the NEAMS program emphasized development of BISON for its application to advanced reactors. While there are a variety of advanced fuel concepts, based on interaction with industry and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the fuel types we chose to develop were metallic fast reactor, UN/UC and particle fuels. The last chapter of this report documents proposed work for FY21. We plan to continue work on metallic and particle fuel in terms of developing/calibrating models and to begin rigorous validation/assessment for both fuel types. Due to the merger of the NEAMS and CASL programs, FY21 will see a return to light water reactor model development and simulation; this time focused on advanced technology fuels. Additionally, we seek to improve BISON, fundamentally. As such, we plan improvements to BISON and MOOSE in terms of algorithmic robustness, performance, ease-of-use, and quality assurance.
- Research Organization:
- Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States); Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Southwestern Scientific, Mission Viejo, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC07-05ID14517
- OSTI ID:
- 1768565
- Report Number(s):
- INL/EXT-20-60002; TRN: US2215211
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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