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INL’s Teton supercomputer open for business
Idaho National Laboratory has brought its newest high‑performance supercomputer, named Teton, online and made it available to users through the Department of Energy’s Nuclear Science User Facilities program. The system, now the flagship machine in the lab’s Collaborative Computing Center, quadruples INL’s total computing capacity and enters service as the 85th fastest supercomputer in the world.
Shigeki Shiba, Tomohiro Sakai
Nuclear Technology | Volume 208 | Number 2 | February 2022 | Pages 371-383
Technical Note | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2021.1913032
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The Purdue Advanced Reactor Core Simulator (PARCS) three-dimensional neutron kinetics code and the TRACE nuclear systems analysis code were interfaced. This provides a best-estimate coupled code system for performing transient plant calculations with reactivity feedback from a detailed core model, significantly contributing to nuclear power plant safety analyses. This study performed steady-state and transient simulations of Peach Bottom 2 Turbine Trip Test 2 (PB2 TT2) using the CASMO5/TRACE/PARCS coupled code. Consequently, CASMO5/TRACE/PARCS simulates the rapid positive reactivity addition caused by the sudden closure of the turbine stop valve. Specifically, the discrepancy in the maximum total power during the transient condition was within 3% compared with the PB2 TT2 experimental data. Furthermore, the sensitivity of the thermal-hydraulic channel (CHAN) component modeling in the coupled CASMO5/TRACE/PARCS code revealed that the number of CHAN components influenced the assembly radial power peaking factor in the PB2 TT2 transient calculation.