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OECD NEA meeting focuses on irradiation experiments
Members of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency’s Second Framework for Irradiation Experiments (FIDES-II) joint undertaking gathered from September 29 to October 3 in Ketchum, Idaho, for the technical advisory group and governing board meetings hosted by Idaho National Laboratory. The FIDES-II Framework aims to ensure and foster competences in experimental nuclear fuel and structural materials in-reactor experiments through a diverse set of Joint Experimental Programs (JEEPs).
Hsing Chien Yeh, William E. Kastenberg, Walter J. Karplus
Nuclear Technology | Volume 84 | Number 1 | January 1989 | Pages 23-32
Technical Paper | Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT89-A34193
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A new approach for high-speed simulation is applied to the analysis of nuclear power system dynamics. The proposed approach is to first identify inherent parallelism and then to develop suitable parallel computation algorithms. The latter includes numerical integration and table lookup techniques that can be used for achieving high-speed simulation. A performance evaluation of the proposed methodology has been completed, which is based on benchmark simulation for pressurized water reactor plant dynamics. The multirate integration algorithm and an innovative table lookup technique running on a parallel processing computer system have proved to be the most advantageous in computational speed. Moreover, by using the proposed approach, faster than real-time dynamic simulation of nuclear power plant transients can be achieved.