Qualification of Metallic Fuel Data for Advanced SFR Applications

Validation of MFUEL Metal Fuel Performance Models of SAS4A/SASSYS-1

“…EBR-II Fuels Irradiation and Physics Database (FIPD) [24][25][26] and Refs [27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37] have been utilized to simulate the EBR-II operating conditions for selected fuel pins and compare simulation results with measured data. Table 2 summarizes the main properties of the selected fuel pins, including the as-fabricated geometry and composition, and lists the bundles, i.e.…”

“…Selected EBR-II Fuel Pins for Normal Operation Benchmarks[24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37] …”

Fast Reactor Database Utilization for Qualification of Metallic Fuel Forms

“…Among the methods outlined in the QAPP, the peer review method has been chosen for independent evaluation of the data. This method assesses whether the original employed QA methodology is acceptable, whether confidence in warranted in the data acquisition or developmental results, or if the data have been used in a similar range of applications [19]. One or more subject matter experts (SMEs) with expertise in fuels and materials are assigned to perform the data evaluation.…”

Progress Report on SFR Metallic Fuel Data Qualification

“…In addition to the plan to qualify the data, another plan has been developed to qualify the software associated with the database. This plan is designated the Nuclear Fuel Codes and Data (NFD) Software Quality Assurance Program Plan (SQAPP) [15]. The relation between the QAPP and SQAPP for metallic fuel data qualification can be seen in Figure 1.…”