Mongoose Methods and Theory

Technical Report · Mon May 01 04:00:00 EDT 2017

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/3001729· OSTI ID:3001729

Collins, Benjamin ^[1]; Galloway, Jack ^[2]

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1. Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
2. Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

The Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors (CASL) has developed a suite of high-fidelity software and methods that is capable of simulating the full operating history of a commercial pressurized water reactor (PWR), including the loading, depletion, shuffling, and discharge of all nuclear fuel assemblies. These tools, collectively known as the Virtual Environment for Reactor Applications, or VERA, include advanced solvers and multi-physics coupling algorithms that provide the most rigorous solutions available today for steady-state nuclear reactor analysis. To demonstrate this capability, VERA has recently been used to simulate over 18 years of operation of Watts Bar Nuclear Unit 1 (WBN1), and the results of these calculations are used to quantify its performance in an industry-grade benchmarking activity.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 3001729
• Report Number(s): CASL-U--2017-1354-000
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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