Modeling the IFR-1 metal fuel experiment in bison through the NEAMS workbench

Funding

Notice: This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC, under Contract No. DE-AC0500OR22725 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for the United States Government purposes. The Department of Energy will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan (http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan). Portions of this research were funded by the US DOE Office of Nuclear Energy through the VTR project and NEAMS. This research was supported in part by an appointment to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory NESLS Program, sponsored by the US Department of Energy, and administered by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education. The authors would like to acknowledge several people that contributed useful information and feedback to this work. Doug Porter and Doug Crawford of the Idaho National Laboratory and Florent Heidet of Argonne National Laboratory all provided essential input parameters and operating conditions that helped model the IFR-1 experiment in Bison. Mark Baird, Paul Miller, and Brandon Langley of Oak Ridge National Laboratory provided technical assistance with computational difficulties. Portions of this research were funded by the US DOE Office of Nuclear Energy through the VTR project and NEAMS. This research was supported in part by an appointment to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory NESLS Program, sponsored by the US Department of Energy, and administered by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education.