Improved Fast Reactor Capability of Griffin in FY23
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
Griffin is a MOOSE based reactor multiphysics analysis application jointly developed by Idaho National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory under the DOE-NE NEAMS program. In FY23, we enhanced capabilities required for fast reactor analysis. This effort included primarily updating the cross-section generation workflow using MC2-3 for various reactor configurations, such as homogeneous, duct-heterogeneous, ring-heterogeneous, and fully-heterogeneous geometries. In addition, we initiated the implementation of a multi-cycle depletion and shuffling capability. To support fast reactor simulation capabilities, we significantly improved the performance of the DFEM-SN-based R-Z transport solver to efficiently solve ultrafine group (over 1000 groups) transport problems. Additionally, the performance of HFEM-PN was improved by introducing red-black iteration, the cmfd acceleration technique, and various optimizations. We also completed the pin power reconstruction capability to support multiphysics simulations while identifying and addressing issues associated with SPH equivalence parameter approach. These enhanced capabilities for fast reactor core simulations, specially HFEM-PN and pin power reconstruction features, were applied to benchmark problems involving ABTR and ABR-1000. These applications showcased excellent agreement with Monte Carlo and other code solutions in terms of eigenvalue, control rod worth, and assembly and pin powers.
- Research Organization:
- Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC07-05ID14517
- OSTI ID:
- 2352756
- Report Number(s):
- INL/RPT--23-74897-Rev000
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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