In the last two decades, the use of OpenFOAM as a multi-physics library for nuclear
applications has grown from a sporadic use for exploratory studies to a widespread …

SCIANTIX is a 0D, open-source code designed to model inert gas behaviour within nuclear
fuel at the scale of the grain. The code predominantly employs mechanistic approaches …

The virtual reactor is a sophisticated software system deployed on supercomputers to
simulate physics process or predict component behaviors inside real reactors. It highly relies …

TRANSURANUS is a computer program for the thermal and mechanical analysis of fuel rods
irradiated in nuclear reactors. It was originally developed at the Institute for Transuranium …

This work focuses on the performance analysis of driver fuel pins under transient irradiation
conditions in the MYRRHA reactor, which must be considered besides the normal operation …

Among the applications of the multiscale modelling approach in nuclear fuel rod
performance, the coupling of integral thermo-mechanical fuel performance codes with lower …

Recycling and burning minor actinides (MA, eg, americium, neptunium) in mixed-oxide
(MOX) nuclear fuel is a strategic option for fast reactor concepts of Generation IV, especially …

We propose a model describing the HBS formation and the progressive intra-granular xenon
depletion in UO2. The HBS formation is modeled employing the Kolmogorov-Johnson-Mehl …

Minor actinides are the main contributors to medium-and long-term radiotoxicity and heat
production in spent nuclear fuels. Research efforts are currently ongoing to explore different …

We propose a model describing the high burnup structure inter-granular porosity evolution
under irradiation. The evolution of the porosity collecting the gas diffusing from the grains is …