Phisics: A New Reactor Physics Analysis Toolkit
In the last year INL has internally pursued the development of a new reactor analysis tool: PHISICS, which is built in a modular approach to simplify the independent development of modules by different teams and future maintenance.
Abstract
In the last year INL has internally pursued the development of a new reactor analysis tool: PHISICS. The software is built in a modular approach to simplify the independent development of modules by different teams and future maintenance. Most of the modules at the time of this summary are still under development (time dependent transport driver, depletion, cross section I/O and interpolation, generalized perturbation theory), while the transport solver INSTANT (Intelligent Nodal and Semi-structured Treatment for Advanced Neutron Transport) has already been widely used1, 2, 3, 4. For this reason we will focus mainly on the presentation of the transport solver INSTANT