BISON metallic fuels benchmark simulations based on the x430 experiments

Funding

This work was funded by die US Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy (DOE-NE) Versatile Test Reactor (VTR) project. The work reported in this summary is the result of studies supporting a VTR conceptual design, cost, and schedule estimate for DOE-NE to make a decision on procurement. As such, it is preliminary. The authors wish to thank Stephen Novasconc, Al Casagranda, and Adam Zabriskic of the INL BISON development team and Alexander Lindsay of the INL MOOSE development team for their valuable input in BISON fuel performance models in metallic fuels. Additional thanks to Aaron Oaks and LatifYacout of Argonnc National Laboratory, Christopher Mathews of Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Doug Crawford and Doug Porter of INL for providing access to EBR-II reports, documents, and databases as well as dieir own personal knowledge and expertise.