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Diversification and the common ground
Craig Piercycpiercy@ans.org
Who would have thought, just a few years ago, that we would see so many long-standing barriers to new nuclear development falling like dominoes? Public opinion, policy, regulatory reform, finance and investment, design maturity, nuclear fuel enrichment, and fuel fabrication capacity have all advanced with remarkable speed in the United States.
Conventional wisdom holds that the most effective way to scale up the nuclear supply chain is to do so strategically, matching investments to the needs of reactor developers.
Teodosi Simeonov, Charles Wemple, Joshua Hykes
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 199 | Number 12 | December 2025 | Pages 2066-2072
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2025.2455347
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Studsvik’s approach to spent nuclear fuel (SNF) analyses combines isotopic concentrations, fluxes, and cross sections, calculated by the CASMO5 neutron transport and depletion code, with irradiation history data from the SIMULATE5 reactor core simulator and tabulated isotopic decay data. These data sources are used and processed by the SNF code to compute the SNF characteristics. Recent advances in the system, including uncertainty analyses of the computed decay heat power, are presented in this paper. The decay heat power uncertainty is evaluated accounting for the uncertainties in the operating conditions and uncertainties in the nuclear and decay data. The model involves a series of stochastic perturbations combined with the linear propagation law. The uncertainty quantification complements the best estimate decay heat power.