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Second round of Launch Pad selections includes eight newcomers
The National Reactor Innovation Center at Idaho National Laboratory has announced 13 project selections across 12 companies for the Nuclear Energy Launch Pad, a Department of Energy–led program that integrates reactor and fuel facility authorization, testing, and deployment support for private nuclear developers.
The Launch Pad emerged from the Reactor Pilot Program and Fuel Line Pilot Program.
According to INL, projects selected include reactor development and nuclear fuel cycle advancements, including fabrication, enrichment, and conversion technologies.
Nathan Greiner, François Madiot, Yannick Gorsse, Cyril Patricot, Guillaume Campioni
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 197 | Number 12 | December 2023 | Pages 3000-3021
YMSR Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2023.2197043
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Molten salt nuclear reactors (MSRs) constitute a promising technology to produce safe, reliable, abundant low-carbon energy. To design MSR systems and perform safety analyses on them, numerical simulation is a powerful tool. Here, we implemented a coupling between several solvers of the deterministic neutronics code APOLLO3® (the MINARET SN transport and the MINOS diffusion and SPn-simplified transport solvers) and the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code TRUST/TrioCFD, both developed at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA). The code coupling is orchestrated using the dedicated C3PO library of the open-source SALOME platform. A new code-coupling strategy is employed whereby the delayed neutron precursor concentrations are computed by the CFD code, which eases the use of traditional deterministic neutronics codes. We verified the correctness of our implementation by performing a numerical benchmark dedicated to fast spectrum MSRs originally devised by the French National Center for Scientific Research. The numerical results we obtained are in excellent agreement with those obtained by recent MSR-dedicated multiphysics simulation tools. This study provides a new convenient neutronic–thermal-hydraulic coupling strategy for MSR core simulation.