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NRC okays construction permits for Hermes 2 test facility
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced yesterday that it has directed staff to issue construction permits to Kairos Power for the company's proposed Hermes 2 nonpower test reactor facility to be built at the Heritage Center Industrial Park in Oak Ridge, Tenn. The permits authorize Kairos to build a facility with two 35-MWt test reactors that would use molten salt to cool the reactor cores.
Nickolas J. Adamowicz, Annalisa Manera, Edward W. Larsen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 197 | Number 2 | February 2023 | Pages 262-278
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2022.2112900
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The coarse-mesh finite difference (CMFD) method is commonly used to accelerate the iterative convergence of single-physics neutron transport problems. For multiphysics problems, the neutron cross sections depend on the temperature and density, both of which depend on the fission heat source; the resulting nonlinear feedback can significantly degrade the performance of CMFD and even cause instability. In this paper, we propose, for a class of one-dimensional (1-D) model multiphysics problems, a new nonlinearly implicit low-order (NILO) CMFD (NILO-CMFD) acceleration method to improve the performance of CMFD-based methods for solving loosely coupled multiphysics problems. Our numerical testing and Fourier analysis show that for the 1-D model problems, the new NILO-CMFD method achieves the same rapid convergence rate that CMFD achieves for single-physics problems.