@article{474ad48069a54ca6b21f6c1cf98aae1e,
title = "Metallic Fuel Performance Benchmarks for Versatile Test Reactor Applications",
abstract = "The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy{\textquoteright}s Versatile Test Reactor (VTR) project is designing a new fast-spectrum test reactor. The VTR reference driver fuel design is sodium-bonded U-20Pu-10Zr (wt\%) metallic fuel and HT-9 cladding. The BISON fuel performance code is being used to model the VTR driver fuel pin to evaluate the effects of differences between its design and the legacy designs that preceded it. This work summarizes ongoing efforts at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to benchmark BISON for VTR driver fuel analyses, including establishing metallic fuel performance code requirements for VTR applications and benchmarking BISON for VTR driver fuel analyses. Integral fuel pin predictions are compared to legacy calculations and post-irradiation examination data for 261 fuel pins irradiated at Experimental Breeder Reactor II and the Fast Flux Test Facility. The BISON predictions exhibit trends that are generally consistent with the legacy data. Burnup and temperature predictions were found to be more accurate than mechanical predictions such as radial cladding dilation, axial fuel elongation, and plenum pressure. Likely sources of error were identified for evaluation in future work.",
keywords = "BISON, benchmarking, metallic fuel, U-Pu-Zr, Versatile Test Reactor",
author = "Hirschhorn, \{Jacob A.\} and Powers, \{Jeffrey J.\} and Ian Greenquist and Sweet, \{Ryan T.\} and Jianwei Hu and Porter, \{Douglas L.\} and Crawford, \{Douglas C.\}",
note = "Funding Information: This work is the result of ongoing efforts supporting the VTR project and was sponsored by the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy. The authors would like to acknowledge the BISON development team for its support. This paper has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the US Department of Energy (DOE). The US government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the US government retains a nonexclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, worldwide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for US government purposes. DOE 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). Funding Information: This work is the result of ongoing efforts supporting the VTR project and was sponsored by the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy. The authors would like to acknowledge the BISON development team for its support. This paper has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the US Department of Energy (DOE). The US government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the US government retains a nonexclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, worldwide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for US government purposes. DOE 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 ). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor \& Francis Group, LLC.",
year = "2022",
month = mar,
day = "24",
doi = "10.1080/00295639.2022.2043539",
language = "English",
volume = "196",
pages = "123--147",
journal = "Nuclear Science and Engineering",
issn = "0029-5639",
publisher = "Taylor and Francis Ltd.",
number = "sup1",
}