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X-energy receives federal tax credit for TRISO fuel facility
Advanced reactor company X-energy has been awarded $148.5 million in tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act for construction of its TRISO-X fuel fabrication facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Afaque Shams, Dante De Santis (NRG), Adam Padee, Tobiasz Jarosiewicz, Piotr Wasiuk, Tomasz Kwiatkowski, S?awomir Potempski (National Centre for Nuclear Research)
Proceedings | Advances in Thermal Hydraulics 2018 | Orlando, FL, November 11-15, 2018 | Pages 625-635
This paper presents technical aspects of large-scale direct numerical simulation (DNS) using high performance computing (HPC) cluster. It is divided in two parts. The first part contains a detailed description of HPC infrastructure used for the task, located in ?wierk Computing Centre (CI?), Poland. The description includes hardware configuration, software used for on-demand deployment of dedicated subclusters, and finally queuing and storage systems. The second part presents the large-scale simulations performed using this HPC cluster. In this regard, a highly scalable CFD code NEK5000 has been used to perform the DNS of two important thermal-hydraulic problems within the nuclear industry, i.e. pressurized thermal shock and inter-channel mixing in a bare rod bundle configuration.