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DOE issues new NEPA rule and procedures—and accelerates DOME reactor testing
Meeting a deadline set in President Trump’s May 23 executive order “Reforming Nuclear Reactor Testing at the Department of Energy,” the DOE on June 30 updated information on its National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) rulemaking and implementation procedures and published on its website an interim final rule that rescinds existing regulations alongside new implementing procedures.
Zachary K. Hardy, Jim E. Morel
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 198 | Number 4 | April 2024 | Pages 832-852
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2023.2218581
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In this paper, a non-intrusive reduced-order model (ROM) for parametric reactor kinetics simulations is presented. Time-dependent ROMs are notoriously data intensive and difficult to implement when nonlinear multiphysics phenomena are considered. These challenges are exacerbated when parametric dependencies are included. The proper orthogonal decomposition mode coefficient interpolation (POD-MCI) ROM presented in this work can be constructed directly from lower-dimensional full-order model (FOM) outputs and is independent of the underlying model. This greatly alleviates the data requirement of many existing ROMs and can be used without modification on arbitrarily complex models or experimental data. The POD-MCI ROM is demonstrated on a number of examples and yields accurate characterizations of the parametric behaviors of both FOM outputs and derived quantities of interest within the selected parameter spaces, at extremely attractive computational speedup factors relative to FOMs.