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Argonne’s METL gears up to test more sodium fast reactor components
Argonne National Laboratory has successfully swapped out an aging cold trap in the sodium test loop called METL (Mechanisms Engineering Test Loop), the Department of Energy announced April 23. The upgrade is the first of its kind in the United States in more than 30 years, according to the DOE, and will help test components and operations for the sodium-cooled fast reactors being developed now.
Andreas Pautz, Adolf Birkhofer
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 145 | Number 3 | November 2003 | Pages 299-319
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE03-A2385
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A new neutron transport code for time-dependent analyses of nuclear systems has been developed. The code DORT-TD is based on the well-known Discrete Ordinates code DORT, which solves the steady-state neutron transport equation in two dimensions for an arbitrary number of energy groups and standard regular geometries. For the implementation of time-dependence, a fully implicit, unconditionally stable time integration scheme was employed to minimize errors due to temporal discretization. This requires several modifications to the transport equation and the extensive use of sophisticated acceleration mechanisms. The convergence criteria for fluxes and fission densities had to be strongly tightened to ensure the reliability of results. We also allowed for cross sections varying with time to couple neutronics and thermal hydraulics calculations. The neutronics code was finally applied to a research reactor to show its capabilities for both slow and fast transients.