TY - GEN
T1 - Overview of the Consortium for the Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors (CASL)
AU - Kulesza, Joel A.
AU - Franceschini, Fausto
AU - Evans, Thomas M.
AU - Gehin, Jess C.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Westinghouse Electric Company LLC. All Rights Reserved.
PY - 2016/2/3
Y1 - 2016/2/3
N2 - The Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors (CASL) was established in July 2010 for the purpose of providing advanced modeling and simulation solutions for commercial nuclear reactors. The primary goal is to provide coupled, higher-fidelity, usable modeling and simulation capabilities than are currently available. These are needed to address light water reactor (LWR) operational and safety performance-defining phenomena that are not yet able to be fully modeled taking a first-principles approach. In order to pursue these goals, CASL has participation from laboratory, academic, and industry partners. These partners are pursuing the solution of ten major "Challenge Problems" in order to advance the state-of-the-art in reactor design and analysis to permit power uprates, higher burnup, life extension, and increased safety. At present, the problems being addressed by CASL are primarily reactor physics-oriented; however, this paper is intended to introduce CASL to the reactor dosimetry community because of the importance of reactor physics modelling and nuclear data to define the source term for that community and the applicability and extensibility of the transport methods being developed.
AB - The Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors (CASL) was established in July 2010 for the purpose of providing advanced modeling and simulation solutions for commercial nuclear reactors. The primary goal is to provide coupled, higher-fidelity, usable modeling and simulation capabilities than are currently available. These are needed to address light water reactor (LWR) operational and safety performance-defining phenomena that are not yet able to be fully modeled taking a first-principles approach. In order to pursue these goals, CASL has participation from laboratory, academic, and industry partners. These partners are pursuing the solution of ten major "Challenge Problems" in order to advance the state-of-the-art in reactor design and analysis to permit power uprates, higher burnup, life extension, and increased safety. At present, the problems being addressed by CASL are primarily reactor physics-oriented; however, this paper is intended to introduce CASL to the reactor dosimetry community because of the importance of reactor physics modelling and nuclear data to define the source term for that community and the applicability and extensibility of the transport methods being developed.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84962003756&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1051/epjconf/201610603002
DO - 10.1051/epjconf/201610603002
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84962003756
T3 - EPJ Web of Conferences
BT - ISRD 2014 - International Symposium on Reactor Dosimetry
A2 - Lyoussi, Abdallah
PB - EDP Sciences
T2 - 15th International Symposium on Reactor Dosimetry, ISRD 2014
Y2 - 18 May 2014 through 23 May 2014
ER -