CASL milestone validates reactor model using TVA data Date: July 10, 2013 Source: DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory Summary: Today, the Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors ...

Bringing New Clarity to Reactor Behavior Traditional system analysis tools are not well-suited to model the dynamic behavior of MSRs, which differ significantly from solid-fueled reactors.

Researchers develop advanced model to improve safety of next-generation reactors The model can better predict the physical phenomenon inside of very-high-temperature pebble-bed reactors Date: May ...

VERA provides advanced modeling and simulation capabilities to help address several challenges, leading to improved performance and longer lifetimes for the current reactor fleet.

"The new model gives scientists a powerful tool for extracting molecular-level insight from reactor-scale measurements, or for making reactor-scale predictions from molecular-level mechanistic ...

An experimental program using a 6 degree-of-freedom earthquake simulator at the University at Buffalo was executed to generate data for supporting validation of numerical models for seismic ...