TY - GEN
T1 - Multiphysics Suite for Design of Small Reactors
AU - Fallgren, A. J.
AU - Rearden, B. T.
AU - Kennedy, John
AU - George, Nathan
AU - Rhodes, Dov
AU - Oler, Adam
AU - Pevey, John
AU - Payne, Josh
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Proceedings of Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space, NETS 2022. All Rights Reserved.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - X-energy's modeling and simulation toolkit enables design and analysis focused on deployment of advanced and realizable space nuclear power systems with the correct level of rigor applied for each analysis area. Application of high-fidelity reference tools remove approximations in fundamental safety and performance parameters and provide integral responses for system level tools, enabling rapid turnaround for reactor power ramps and accident scenarios as well as whole plant analysis that couples the sub-systems from the reactor through the balance of plant. These tools have strong industry and government pedigrees for their chosen application envelopes and many have been developed under quality standards that facilitate adoption into a standards compliant design process that enables deployment of these new concepts. X-energy investigates a variety of reactor concepts understanding both the steady state and dynamic interactions involving radiation transport, thermal transport, mechanical interaction, and control system behavior with Brayton and Stirling cycles with heat pipes or pumped fluids.
AB - X-energy's modeling and simulation toolkit enables design and analysis focused on deployment of advanced and realizable space nuclear power systems with the correct level of rigor applied for each analysis area. Application of high-fidelity reference tools remove approximations in fundamental safety and performance parameters and provide integral responses for system level tools, enabling rapid turnaround for reactor power ramps and accident scenarios as well as whole plant analysis that couples the sub-systems from the reactor through the balance of plant. These tools have strong industry and government pedigrees for their chosen application envelopes and many have been developed under quality standards that facilitate adoption into a standards compliant design process that enables deployment of these new concepts. X-energy investigates a variety of reactor concepts understanding both the steady state and dynamic interactions involving radiation transport, thermal transport, mechanical interaction, and control system behavior with Brayton and Stirling cycles with heat pipes or pumped fluids.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85183578189&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.13182/NETS22-38734
DO - 10.13182/NETS22-38734
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85183578189
T3 - Proceedings of Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space, NETS 2022
SP - 514
EP - 518
BT - Proceedings of Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space, NETS 2022
PB - American Nuclear Society
T2 - 2022 Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space, NETS 2022
Y2 - 8 May 2022 through 12 May 2022
ER -