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New work for old FLiBe? DOE considers reuse of molten salt reactor coolant
FLiBe—a mixture of lithium fluoride and beryllium fluoride—is not an off-the-shelf commodity. The Department of Energy suspects that researchers and reactor developers may have a use for the 2,000 kilograms of fluoride-based salt that once ran through the secondary coolant loop of the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Sunday, May 15, 2022|1:00–5:30PM EDT
Ellwood
The Kraken framework is a computational reactor analysis framework developed at VTT for both safety analyses and general research and educational purposes. With the neutronics side building heavily on the in-house Monte Carlo code Serpent, the framework couples novel Finnish solvers for core physics but also couples to state-of-the-art third pary solvers. The Python based multi-physics driver Cerberus and the Python package of pre- and post-processing methods KrakenTools aim to simplify core analysis tasks. Work is ongoing to license the framework free of charge for non-commercial use with distribution through the OECD/NEA data bank and the RSICC.
Agenda:
1. Motivation behind Kraken development.
2. Current solvers in the Kraken framework.
3. KrakenTools, a Python package to help working with Kraken solvers.
4. Coupled multi-physics calculations with Kraken.
5. Demonstration: SMR operating cycle analysis with Kraken.
6. Current status of licensing and distribution.