TY - JOUR
T1 - BISON-FIPD integration enhanced low-burnup SFR metallic fuel swelling model evaluation framework
AU - Miao, Yinbin
AU - Oaks, Aaron
AU - Mo, Kun
AU - Shu, Shipeng
AU - Fassino, Nicholas
AU - Matthews, Christopher
AU - Novascone, Stephen
AU - Yacout, Abdellatif M.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was sponsored by the Fuel Performance Technical Area of Nuclear Energy Advanced Modeling and Simulation (NEAMS) program of the U.S. Department of Energy. Argonne’s efforts were sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract DE-AC02-06CH11357 . This research made use of Idaho National Laboratory computing resources which are supported by the Office of Nuclear Energy of the U.S. Department of Energy and the Nuclear Science User Facilities under Contract No. DE-AC07-05ID14517 .
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023
PY - 2023/12/1
Y1 - 2023/12/1
N2 - Experiments indicated that metallic fuel in sodium-cooled fast reactors (SFRs) rapidly swells radially and axially at low burnup. Despite that, prior studies have been focused on describing high burnup axial fuel elongation. With recent conventional and non-conventional metallic fuel concepts being considered for license applications, understanding multidimensional fuel swelling at a wide range of burnup levels is important to fuel analysis and qualification activities. Here, we report the development and demonstration efforts of a low-burnup SFR metallic fuel swelling model evaluation framework using the BISON advanced fuel performance code. The framework leverages the Integral Fast Reactor (IFR) program X423 experiment data through the ongoing integration project to enable standardized and automated use of legacy metallic fuel irradiation data maintained in the SFR fuel irradiation and physics database (FIPD) for BISON metallic fuel model verification and validation. The performance of the framework was demonstrated using the two representative metallic fuel swelling model sets implemented in BISON, with a series of insights about future advanced swelling model development.
AB - Experiments indicated that metallic fuel in sodium-cooled fast reactors (SFRs) rapidly swells radially and axially at low burnup. Despite that, prior studies have been focused on describing high burnup axial fuel elongation. With recent conventional and non-conventional metallic fuel concepts being considered for license applications, understanding multidimensional fuel swelling at a wide range of burnup levels is important to fuel analysis and qualification activities. Here, we report the development and demonstration efforts of a low-burnup SFR metallic fuel swelling model evaluation framework using the BISON advanced fuel performance code. The framework leverages the Integral Fast Reactor (IFR) program X423 experiment data through the ongoing integration project to enable standardized and automated use of legacy metallic fuel irradiation data maintained in the SFR fuel irradiation and physics database (FIPD) for BISON metallic fuel model verification and validation. The performance of the framework was demonstrated using the two representative metallic fuel swelling model sets implemented in BISON, with a series of insights about future advanced swelling model development.
KW - BISON
KW - FIPD (fuel irradiation & physics database)
KW - Fuel performance simulation
KW - Metallic fuel
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85173795191
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/af9221f9-330c-3cbf-a09c-34664c430024/
U2 - 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2023.112611
DO - 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2023.112611
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85173795191
SN - 0029-5493
VL - 414
JO - Nuclear Engineering and Design
JF - Nuclear Engineering and Design
M1 - 112611
ER -