Price: $49

Organizers: Nick Herring (ORNL), Matthew Jessee (ORNL), and Andrew Godfrey (Veracity Nuclear, LLC)

VERA—Virtual Environment for Reactor Applications—is a state-of-the-art Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR) core simulator using novel computational methods that integrate reactor physics, thermal hydraulics, and fuel performance into a single simulation platform. The goal of this workshop is to learn how to run the VERA core simulator for PWR analysis. The workshop will provide basic modeling demonstrations and exercises for pin, assembly, and full-core modeling.

The training will be conducted using computational resources at the Nuclear Computational Resource Center (NCRC) at Idaho National Laboratory (INL). Before the workshop, attendees are required to have an INL NRC account (https://inl.gov/ncrc/) and a license for VERA 4.3. Single-user licenses are available through the Radiation Safety Information Computational Center (RSICC) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Workshop attendees may also have a valid license through an active government use agreement or commercial license agreement for VERA through ORNL.