Adding a Stream Mixing Fuel Fabrication Facility

The cycamore FuelFab archetype uses the _equivalence method_ to mix streams of fissile material with so-called “filler” material in an attempt to match neutronics of the requested material. More details about the archetype and the state variables are in the cycamore archetype documentation page.

The following is the input template for the Cycamore::FuelFab archetype:

<facility>
  <name>FuelFab</name>
  <config>
    <FuelFab>
      <fill_commods>
          <val>_______</val>
      </fill_commods>
      <fill_recipe>_______</fill_recipe>
      <fill_size>_______</fill_size>
      <fiss_commods>
          <val>_______</val>
      </fiss_commods>
      <fiss_size>_______</fiss_size>
      <spectrum>_______</spectrum>
      <outcommod>_______</outcommod>
      <throughput>_______</throughput>
    </FuelFab>
  </config>
</facility>

The following configuration will be for a MOX fuel fabrication plant that mixes separated plutonium and natural uranium into MOX fuel:

• Filler stream commodity: u_ore

• Filler stream recipe: nat_u

• Filler stream inventory capacity: 1000 tonnes

• Fissile stream commodity: Separated_Fissile

• Fissile stream inventory capacity: 5 tonnes

• Output Commodity: Fresh_MOX_Fuel

• Maximum Throughput: 2 tonnes/timestep

• Specturm type: “thermal”

Filling in the template, the input block looks like:

<facility>
  <name>FuelFab</name>
  <config>
    <FuelFab>
      <fill_commods> <val>u_ore</val> </fill_commods>
      <fill_recipe>nat_u</fill_recipe>
      <fill_size>1000000</fill_size>
      <fiss_commods><val>Separated_Fissile</val></fiss_commods>
      <fiss_size>5000</fiss_size>
      <spectrum>thermal</spectrum>
      <outcommod>Fresh_MOX_Fuel</outcommod>
      <throughput>2000</throughput>
    </FuelFab>
  </config>
</facility>