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Texas A&M welcomes uranium conversion research
The Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) has signed a research agreement with Quantum Leap Energy (QLE) “to advance and de-risk the commercial production of high-purity uranium hexafluoride (UF6).”
QLE is an Austin, Texas–based subsidiary of ASP Isotopes (ASPI), which is developing an isotope enrichment platform for applications in nuclear energy, nuclear medicine, and semiconductors. QLE specializes in the uranium conversion step of the nuclear fuel cycle—the conversion of yellowcake uranium concentrate (U3O8) into UF6 prior to enrichment.
Muhammad Rizwan Ali, Murat Serdar Aygul, Deokjung Lee
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 200 | Number 1 | March 2026 | Pages S754-S769
Note | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2025.2502714
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
This article presents the novel algorithmic developments and performance analysis of the GPU-optimized REActor Physics Monte Carlo (GREAPMC) graphical processing unit (GPU)–accelerated multigroup Monte Carlo (MC) code tailored specifically for pressurized water reactor simulations. GREAPMC tackles the thread divergence issue inherent in history-based neutron tracking on GPUs by introducing two new optimization strategies. The first novel approach dynamically replaces inactive particles with new ones during the execution of the transport loop, while the second strategy enhances efficiency by capping the history length during active cycles at a predefined maximum number of interactions. Subsequently, it sorts and invokes the kernel with only the surviving neutrons. The maximum number of interactions is automatically adjusted while considering cycle time during inactive cycles. Both methods significantly accelerate computation compared to MCS, a high-fidelity MC code developed at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, with the latter approach demonstrating the most substantial acceleration. GREAPMC further enhances efficiency by adopting cell-based geometry modeling. This approach eliminates cell search overhead, ensuring consistent execution times even as the number of cells increases. Overall, these algorithmic developments in GREAPMC achieve substantial computational acceleration against MCS. A single GPU card in this study demonstrates performance equivalent to approximately 570 cores from the specific CPU model used.