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ORNL, Rutherford Energy Ventures launch fusion partnership
Fusion Upscaled Leveraged Consortia for Rapid Acceleration (FULCRA) is the new public-private partnership between Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Rutherford Energy Ventures, a fusion consultancy company headquartered in Cambridge, Mass. FULCRA intends to create shared fusion test bed infrastructure at ORNL to serve as a design and funding model for similar test facilities at other national laboratories.
Jin Li, Thomas Downar, Volkan Seker, Dan O’Grady, Rui Hu, Nader Satvat, Shai Kinast
Nuclear Technology | Volume 211 | Number 9 | September 2025 | Pages 2189-2205
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2024.2381282
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The fluoride-salt-cooled high-temperature reactor (FHR) is one of the advanced reactors that has been attracting considerable interest from both the research community and the nuclear industry. To help facilitate the nuclear community’s familiarity with the FHR, Kairos Power has developed a generic FHR (gFHR) benchmark. In the research performed here, this benchmark was used to assess innovative modeling methods that combine stochastic and deterministic computer codes to perform the design and analysis of the gFHR. The Monte Carlo code Serpent 2 was used to generate few-group cross sections that were then used in the neutron diffusion and thermal-fluids code AGREE to perform full-core neutronics and thermal-fluids steady-state and transient core analysis. The Argonne National Laboratory code SAM was then used to model the gFHR system and to simulate the load-follow operation of the gFHR.