2025 Annual Review: Light Water Reactors

May 7, 2025

Opening remarks, NEAMS Overview, and Gas-Cooled and Fluoride Salt-Cooled Reactors Research Plan

David Henderson, DOE & David Andersson, LANL

Technical Area introductions: overview, highlights, and strategy

Multiphysics Applications

Emily Shemon, ANL & Cody Permann, INL

Thermal Fluids

Elia Merzari, ANL

Fuel Performance

Steve Novascone, INL

Reactors Physics

Matthew Jessee, ORNL

Structural Materials and Chemistry

Ben Spencer, INL

NEAMS industry impact & contribution to experimental testing

Nathan Capps, ORNL

Burnup extension and fuel fragmentation, relocation, and dispersal

Analysis of burst susceptible during LBLOCA in high-burnup BWR core

Ian Greenquist ORNL & Aaron Wysocki, ORNL

UO2 pellet model developments: Doped UO2, high burnup UO2, pellet-clad bonding model, analysis of Halden data

Pierre-Clement Simon, INL & Conor Galvin, LANL

Clad ballooning and mechanistic model development

Laurent Capolungo, LANL

Power uprates: Time at temperature

Simulation of the Peach bottom turbine trip benchmark case

Nick Herring, ORNL

Validation and sensitivity analysis of thermal hydraulic capabilities for modeling of transient dry out and re-wet

Vineet Kumar, ORNL

Cladding model development for time at temperature

Laurent Capolungo, LANL