Market-Based and System-Wide Fuel Cycle Optimization

Technical Report · Tue Jun 13 00:00:00 EDT 2017

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1363866· OSTI ID:1363866

Wilson, Paul Philip Hood ^[1]; Scopatz, Anthony ^[2]; Gidden, Matthew ^[1]; Carlsen, Robert ^[1]; Mouginot, Baptiste ^[1]; Flanagan, Robert ^[2]

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1. Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
2. Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (United States)

This work introduces automated optimization into fuel cycle simulations in the Cyclus platform. This includes system-level optimizations, seeking a deployment plan that optimizes the performance over the entire transition, and market-level optimization, seeking an optimal set of material trades at each time step. These concepts were introduced in a way that preserves the flexibility of the Cyclus fuel cycle framework, one of its most important design principles.

• Research Organization: Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE), Fuel Cycle Technologies (NE-5)
• DOE Contract Number: NE0000673
• OSTI ID: 1363866
• Report Number(s): DOE-UW-0000673; TRN: US1702292
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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optimization
agent-based simulation