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Christmas Night
Twas the night before Christmas when all through the houseNo electrons were flowing through even my mouse.
All devices were plugged in by the chimney with careWith the hope that St. Nikola Tesla would share.
Technical Session|Reactor Design and Analysis
Monday, April 22, 2024|10:15AM–12:00PM PDT|Franciscan A
Session Chair:
Friederike Bostelmann
Alternate Chair:
Donny Hartanto
Session Organizer:
Brendan M. Kochunas
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Impact of Inspection Time on Pebble-Bed Reactor Operation
10:15–10:35AM PDT
Clément Vayron de la Moureyre (Univ. California, Berkeley), Yves Robert (Univ. California, Berkeley), Massimiliano Fratoni (Univ. California, Berkeley)
Presented by Ludovic Jantzen (Univ. California, Berkeley)
Paper
ZONER: A Discrete Element Method (DEM) Post-Processing Methodology for Pebble Bed Reactors Spectral Regions Generation
10:35–10:55AM PDT
G. Busco (Kairos Power), F. Vitullo (Kairos Power), M. Lee (Kairos Power), J. Herter (Kairos Power), N. Satvat (Kairos Power)
Impact of Coupled DEM and Hyper-Fidelity Depletion on Pebble Bed Burnup
10:55–11:15AM PDT
Yves Robert (ORNL), Ludovic Jantzen (Univ. California, Berkeley), Tatiana Siaraferas (Univ. California, Berkeley), Massimiliano Fratoni (Univ. California, Berkeley)
Multiphysics Pebble-Bed Reactor Run-In Simulation Using a High-Fidelity Neutronics--Thermal Hydraulics Framework
11:15–11:35AM PDT
R. Stewart (INL), J. Cavaluzzi (INL), P. Balestra (INL), G. Strydom (INL)
Preliminary Study on Multiphysics Transient Calculations for Pebble Bed Reactors Using High-Fidelity Depletion Data
11:35–11:55AM PDT
Tatiana Siaraferas (Univ. California, Berkeley), Ludovic V. Jantzen (Univ. California, Berkeley), Yves Robert (ORNL), Faisal A. Alseaidan (Univ. California, Berkeley), Massimiliano Fratoni (Univ. California, Berkeley)
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