BISON: A Flexible Code for Advanced Simulation of the Performance of Multiple Nuclear Fuel Forms

Richard L. Williamson; Jason D. Hales; Stephen R. Novascone; Giovanni Pastore; Kyle A. Gamble; Benjamin W. Spencer; Wen Jiang; Stephanie A. Pitts; Albert Casagranda; Daniel Schwen; Adam X. Zabriskie; Aysenur Toptan; Russell Gardner; Christoper Matthews; Wenfeng Liu; Hailong Chen

doi:10.1080/00295450.2020.1836940

BISON: A Flexible Code for Advanced Simulation of the Performance of Multiple Nuclear Fuel Forms

Richard L. Williamson, Jason D. Hales, Stephen R. Novascone, Giovanni Pastore, Kyle A. Gamble, Benjamin W. Spencer, Wen Jiang, Stephanie A. Pitts, Albert Casagranda, Daniel Schwen, Adam X. Zabriskie, Aysenur Toptan, Russell Gardner, Christoper Matthews, Wenfeng Liu, Hailong Chen

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Abstract

BISON is a nuclear fuel performance application built using the Multiphysics Object-Oriented Simulation Environment (MOOSE) finite element library. One of its major goals is to have a great amount of flexibility in how it is used, including in the types of fuel it can analyze, the geometry of the fuel being modeled, the modeling approach employed, and the dimensionality and size of the models. Fuel forms that can be modeled include standard light water reactor fuel, emerging light water reactor fuels, tri-structural isotropic fuel particles, and metallic fuels. BISON is a platform for research in nuclear fuel performance modeling while simultaneously serving as a tool for the analysis of nuclear fuel designs. Recent research in BISON includes techniques such as the extended finite element method for fuel cracking, exploration of high-burnup light water reactor fuel behavior, swelling behavior of metallic fuels, and central void formation in mixed-oxide fuel. BISON includes integrated documentation for each of its capabilities, follows rigorous software quality assurance procedures, and has a growing set of rigorous verification and validation tests.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	954-980
Number of pages	27
Journal	Nuclear Technology
Volume	207
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2020.1836940
State	Published - 2021

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This work was funded by DOE under the Nuclear Energy Advanced Modeling and Simulation and the Consortium for the Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors programs. The submitted manuscript has been authored by a contractor of the U.S. government under contract DE-AC07-05ID14517. Accordingly, the U.S. government retains a nonexclusive, royalty-free license to publish or reproduce the published form of this contribution, or allow others to do so, for U.S. government purposes.

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Consortium for the Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors	DE-AC07-05ID14517
Nuclear Energy Advanced Modeling and Simulation
Michigan State University-U.S. Department of Energy (MSU-DOE) Plant Research Laboratory

Keywords

BISON, MOOSE
Finite element

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Nuclear Energy and Engineering
Condensed Matter Physics

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Williamson, R. L., Hales, J. D., Novascone, S. R., Pastore, G., Gamble, K. A., Spencer, B. W., Jiang, W., Pitts, S. A., Casagranda, A., Schwen, D., Zabriskie, A. X., Toptan, A., Gardner, R., Matthews, C., Liu, W., & Chen, H. (2021). BISON: A Flexible Code for Advanced Simulation of the Performance of Multiple Nuclear Fuel Forms. Nuclear Technology, 207(7), 954-980. https://doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2020.1836940

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