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National labs drive nuclear innovations and uprates for the U.S. fleet
As the United States faces surging electricity demand driven by artificial intelligence, data centers, and a push to bring manufacturing back home, Idaho National Laboratory is leading an effort to modernize and expand the nation’s nuclear power capabilities by revamping the Department of Energy’s Light Water Reactor Sustainability (LWRS) Program.
James Corson, Alice Chung, Steven Muller
Nuclear Technology | Volume 210 | Number 2 | February 2024 | Pages 261-268
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2023.2181042
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This paper presents the Fuel Analysis under Steady-state and Transient (FAST) code contribution to the P2M Simulation Exercise on past fuel melting irradiation experiments organized within the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development/Nuclear Energy Agency’s Framework for Irradiated Experiments (FIDES). The benchmark consists of comparisons to two power ramps (xM-3 and HBC-4) that experienced fuel centerline melting. In general, FAST accurately captured the behavior of the fuel rods during the tests, though there are some notable discrepancies between the FAST results and the cladding elongation and fission gas release during the xM-3 power ramp.