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Team brings quantum computing into FLiBe chemistry calculations
Researchers have reported using a combination of quantum and classical computing to calculate chemistry connected to tritium speciation in a FLiBe—lithium fluoride and beryllium fluoride—molten salt blanket, demonstrating a promising direction for unlocking tritium breeding in fusion machines.
Benjamin Lilley, Todd S. Palmer
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 197 | Number 8 | August 2023 | Pages 1902-1910
Technical papers from: PHYSOR 2022 | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2023.2171273
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A many-reactor power plant with a shared used fuel pool presents significant challenges and a novel opportunity for fuel management optimization. We develop a Python package and interface it with optimization software and core modeling software to automate exploration of the design space for the multireactor multicycle problem. A genetic algorithm is used to search the core reload design space for a two-reactor system, with and without used fuel sharing. With equal computational effort, we find that the fuel-sharing strategy slightly lowers cost.