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ARG-US Remote Monitoring Systems: Use Cases and Applications in Nuclear Facilities and During Transportation
As highlighted in the Spring 2024 issue of Radwaste Solutions, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory are developing and deploying ARG-US—meaning “Watchful Guardian”—remote monitoring systems technologies to enhance the safety, security, and safeguards (3S) of packages of nuclear and other radioactive material during storage, transportation, and disposal.
P. Cosgrove, E. Shwageraus, J. Leppänen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 197 | Number 8 | August 2023 | Pages 1681-1699
Technical papers from: PHYSOR 2022 | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2022.2106732
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Inline algorithms have been proposed for coupling Monte Carlo neutron transport solvers with several other physics, such as xenon and iodine densities and thermal hydraulics. This paper proposes a new inline algorithm that can be applied to burnup calculations. The algorithm is a modification of the predictor-corrector method, where the corrector-step nuclide densities are converged simultaneously with the fission source. This could, in principle, obviate the need for two full neutronics solutions per time-step while still allowing the accuracy of predictor-corrector methods with improved stability. This paper describes the algorithm and demonstrates its stability properties through a Fourier analysis. Although not unconditionally stable, judicious use of batching and relaxation are shown to greatly improve the algorithm’s stability properties in realistic systems.