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X-energy begins irradiation testing at INL
Advanced reactor and fuel developer X-energy has officially begun confirmatory irradiation testing at Idaho National Laboratory on its TRISO-X fuel. The testing, which is taking place over the course of the next 13 months, will evaluate the fuel across a variety of operating scenarios and—if all goes according to plan—will be instrumental in qualifying it for commercial use.
Indrajeet Singh, S. B. Degweker, Amod Kishore Mallick, Anurag Gupta
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 193 | Number 8 | August 2019 | Pages 868-883
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2019.1576453
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In a recent paper, we described the development of a method for calculating exact collision probabilities between different regions (namely, fuel kernels, graphite matrix, moderator, and coolant) of a lattice cell of a high temperature reactor (HTR) of the pebble bed variety. The method was shown to adequately represent the double heterogeneity in such reactors. In the present paper, we use some of the results obtained in that paper to construct a fast Monte Carlo algorithm for treatment of HTRs. This paper discusses the theoretical basis of the Monte Carlo algorithm, its implementation for the case of a lattice cell with the energy variable treated using a multigroup library, and results obtained. The method can be easily extended to full-core calculations using point cross-section data.