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FPoliSolutions demonstrates RISE, an RIPB systems engineering tool
The American Nuclear Society’s Risk-informed, Performance-based Principles and Policy Committee (RP3C) has held another presentation in its monthly Community of Practice (CoP) series. Former RP3C chair N. Prasad Kadambi opened the October 3 meeting with brief introductory remarks about the RP3C and the need for new approaches to nuclear design that go beyond conventional and deterministic methods. He then welcomed this month’s speakers: Mike Mankosa, a project engineer at FPoliSolutions, and Cesare Frepoli, the company’s president, who together presented “Introduction to RISE: A Digital Framework for Maintaining a Risk-Informed Safety Case for Current and Next Generation Nuclear Power Plants.”
Watch the full webinar here.
Abdurrahman Ozturk, Jonathon Gardner (Univ of South Carolina), Kyle Brinkman, Lindsay Shuller-Nickles (Clemson Univ), Travis W. Knight (Univ of South Carolina)
Proceedings | 2018 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2018) | Charlotte, NC, April 8-11, 2018 | Pages 628-634
A MOOSE (Multiphysics Object-Oriented Simulation Environment) based application, TREX, has been developed for modeling and simulation of advanced ceramic waste forms at multiple length scales. A method was developed for incorporating microstructural details at the mesoscale and computing effective material properties that can then be applied at the engineering scale capable of modeling the entire waste form. The work described includes the creation of Kernel, Material, and Postprocessor objects necessary to model the advanced ceramic waste form. Using these developed tools, the diffusion of cesium was modeled in a hollandite waste form. Experimental data and first principle calculations taken from the literature were used to inform models of the hollandite material properties.