NSUF 17-CINR-12853: HPC Access to Advance Understanding of Fission Gas Behavior in Nuclear Fuel
The outcome of this project will be improved insight into the atomistic processes of Xe diffusion and clustering, along with gas re-solution by energetic fission fragments; and the development of a leadership class fission gas simulator, Xolotl-fission, for modeling the spatially dependent bubble population evolution within nuclear fuel. Ultimately this will lead to the development of physically-motivated, computationally benchmarked and experimentally validated engineering-scale models of fission gas release to be used in fuel performance codes like BISON.
Additional Info
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Awarded Institution | University of California-Berkeley |
| CINR Number | 17-12853 |
| Embargo End Date | 2026-03-11 |
| Facility Tech Lead | Alina Montrose |
| NSUF Call | FY 2017 CINR |
| PI | Brian Wirth |
| Project Member | Dr. Brian Wirth - University of Tennessee-Knoxville |
| Project Type | CINR |
| Publication | Multiscale modeling of fission gas bubble evolution in UO2 under nominal operating conditions Brian Wirth NUMAT 2018 2018-10-15 - 2018-10-18 |
| Publication | Predicting neutron damage using TEM with in situ ion irradiation and computer modeling Brian Wirth, Donghua Xu, Meimei Li Journal of Nuclear Materials 498 2017-11-12 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022311517308358 |
| RTE Number | 3051 |