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Leading the charge: INL’s role in advancing HALEU production
Idaho National Laboratory is playing a key role in helping the U.S. Department of Energy meet near-term needs by recovering HALEU from federal inventories, providing critical support to help lay the foundation for a future commercial HALEU supply chain. INL also supports coordination of broader DOE efforts, from material recovery at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina to commercial enrichment initiatives.
Mengkuo Wang, Timothy J. Tautges, Douglass L. Henderson, Laila El-Guebaly, Xueren Wang
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 47 | Number 4 | May 2005 | Pages 1079-1083
Technical Paper | Fusion Energy - First Wall, Blanket, and Shield | doi.org/10.13182/FST05-A830
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MCNPX's geometric modeling capabilities are limited to Boolean combinations of primitive geometric shapes. These capabilities are not sufficient for simulating particle transport in stellerators, whose geometric models are quite complex. We describe a CAD based implementation of MCNPX, where a CAD geometry engine is used directly for solid model representation and evaluation. The application of this code, to calculating the neutron wall loading distribution () in the Z and toroidal directions for the ARIES-CS design, is described.