Extension of Argonne’s Plant Dynamics Code (PDC) Capabilities to TerraPower Direct-Cycle Supercritical CO2 (“Pascal”) Nuclear Reactor Concept. Final CRADA report
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- TerraPower LLC, Bellevue, WA (United States)
Argonne National Laboratory (the Contractor) and TerraPower, LLC, (the Participant), entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) to extend the Plant Dynamics Code (PDC) to model the Pascal reactor plant. PDC is the system-level computer code developed at Argonne, primarily for design and transient analysis of supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) energy conversion systems for various power plants. Pascal is a supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2)-cooled direct-cycle nuclear power reactor under development by TerraPower. New features were added to the code to model components and systems specific to the Pascal plant and to make the code readily available as a tool for design, control, and safety analysis for this and other direct-cycle power plants. TerraPower provided design information of the Pascal reactor and the requirements for the development of the new PDC features. Argonne modified the PDC capabilities to introduce the new features.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); TerraPower LLC, Bellevue, WA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357
- OSTI ID:
- 1988244
- Report Number(s):
- ANL/NSE-C2020-20203; CRADA-A20203; 182984; TRN: US2404398
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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