Development of The DOME Shield Model For The NRIC Virtual Test Bed

Conference · Mon Nov 18 00:00:00 EST 2024

OSTI ID:3020571

Adel Hassan Elkamash, Mohamed Mohamed ^[1]; Mohammad Jaradat, Mustafa Kamel ^[1]; Shemon, Emily ^[2]; Kumar, Shikhar ^[2]; Dorville, Joffrey ^[2]; Romano, Paul ^[2]; Novak, April ^[3]; Madeleine Charlot, Lise Cecile ^[1]

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1. Idaho National Laboratory
2. Argonne National Laboratory
3. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

As several advanced reactor concepts are maturing, test beds are needed to accelerate the demonstration and deployment of these advanced nuclear technologies. The National Reactor Innovation Center (NRIC) is building new or enhancing existing US Department of Energy infrastructure to support testing of components and systems. Demonstration of Microreactor Experiments (DOME) will utilize the Experimental Breeder Reactor-II (EBR-II) dome containment structure to host reactor demonstrations. A reactor supplemental shielding is needed so that DOME dose requirements are met. To accelerate the confirmatory analysis required for the reactor demonstration, the NRIC Virtual Test Bed (VTB) is developing a virtual model of the DOME shield that will be made available on the VTB public repository. This will allow developers to leverage advanced modeling and simulation tools to ensure their reactor demonstration concept will meet dose requirement and the limit concrete temperature in the shield during steady state and transient operation conditions. This paper presents the model developed for the DOME shield using open-source tools: MOOSE heat transfer module, Monte Carlo code OpenMC, and Cardinal to calculate the DOME shield temperature distribution during steady state

• Research Organization: Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE); USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)
• DOE Contract Number: AC07-05ID14517
• OSTI ID: 3020571
• Report Number(s): INL/CON-24-78957
• Resource Type: Conference proceedings
• Conference Information: 2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo, Orlando, Florida, 11/17/2024 - 11/21/2024
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

22 - GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS
Heat transfer
Neutron Gamma heating
Shielding