OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
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This project’s scope of work has been organized into three integrated project tasks which are organized as follows:
(Led by University of Michigan)
A comprehensive neutronics benchmarking analysis will be conducted using PROTEUS (DoE NEAMS code), PARCS/AGREE (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission [NRC] code) and Open MC (Monte Carlo code). An IRPhEP will result from this comprehensive benchmarking analysis.
Two steady state condition benchmarking tests will be selected and studied.
Two transient condition benchmarking problems will be selected and studied.
(Led by Oregon State University)
A complete thermal hydraulic study will be conducted that focuses on the experimental loops placed within the TREAT Facility. These include a comprehensive evaluation of historical data collected from previous sodium experiments as well as expansion of existing data through design, development, and utilization of a new experimental loop that is representative of a proposed TREAT water flow loop.
Data from historically collected sodium loop calibration experiments will be used in a benchmark study against Nek5000 (DoE NEAMS code) and Star CCM+ (Industry code).
Empirical data resulting from the new experimental flow loop will be benchmarked against RELAP5-3D (Industry code) and TRACE (U.S. NRC code). The experimental loop will also be used to support operational shake-down issues for a TREAT Facility prototype.
(Led by Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
The result of task 1 and 2, along with the conduct of ongoing experimental efforts underway by the FY14 IRP-NE team, will provide a clear basis for the design and development of a comprehensive TREAT Facility instrumentation plan.
A comprehensive instrumentation plan (location and instrument selection) will be conducted.
Testing of instruments that are required for implementation within the TREAT Facility and that have not already been tested will be conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Reactor II (steady state tests) and the Oregon State TRIGA® Reactor (transient tests).
