Research & Development
Virtual Reactor Integration (VRI)
Bridging the gap between research and engineering
Objectives and Strategies
- VRI will deliver a suite of robust, verified, and usable tools within a common multi-physics environment for the design and analysis of nuclear reactor cores, with quantified uncertainties
- Agile software development processes and partner strengths in large-scale code development are key to meeting VRI challenges
Requirements Drivers
- VRI is the conduit between targeted research and engineering analysis
- Guided by current and future simulation and workflow requirements developed with Advanced Modeling Applications (AMA)
- Collaboration with Validation and Uncertainty Quantification (VUQ) on improved tools and methodologies for quantification of uncertainties
- Research, development, and Integration of advanced capabilities with the Materials Performance and Optimization (MPO), Thermal Hydraulics Methods (THM), and Radiation Transport Methods (RTM) focus areas
Outcomes and Impact
- VRI will deliver the environment described above, portions of which will be openly-available
- VRI success will be measured by
- Use of Virtual Environment for Reactor Applications (VERA) by industry partners in understanding and mitigating key issues
- Downloads of the open portion(s) of VERA
- VRI success will improve industry analysis, bringing coupled, high-fidelity simulation into nuclear engineering workflows