NEUP CINR-21-24258: High-fidelity, data science-informed pebble-bed reactor simulator

A high-fidelity tool for confirmatory analysis will be available to PBRs developers. This reference model will be used to verify closures and simulations of lower fidelity tools. Deliverables include (1) methodology to generate cross sections for use in GRIFFIN/PPT to perform PBR calculations with depletion, accounting for pebble stochasticity; (2) efficient high-fidelity simulations of PBR core physics & depletion without pebble homogenization into spectral zones.

Additional Info

Field	Value
Awarded Institution	Texas A&M University
PI	Jean Ragusa