Enhanced neutronics systems

A nuclear reactor modeling system comprising:

• a modeling interface configured to:
• determine standardized modeling data of an abstract nuclear reactor model representing a nuclear reactor core, the standardized nuclear reactor modeling data includes a nuclear reactor data structure including a plurality of assembly structures, each assembly structure representative of a physical component that is present in the nuclear reactor model, two or more of the assembly structures representing fuel assemblies of the nuclear reactor, each fuel assembly structure including a plurality of block structures representative of axially distributed blocks of the fuel assembly of the nuclear reactor core, at least one block structure of the plurality of block structures of the fuel assembly structure includes material data and location, the material and location data representative of fuel pin material and location within the fuel assembly of the nuclear reactor core, at least one fuel pin material of a first fuel assembly structure being different from a second fuel pin material of a second fuel assembly structure, one or more of the assembly structures representative of control rods of the nuclear reactor, and one or more of the assembly structures representative of a structure of a fuel assembly receptacle of the nuclear reactor core:
• converting the standardized modeling data of the abstract nuclear reactor model to nuclear reactor modeling data defining a nuclear reactor model modelling the nuclear reactor core, the nuclear reactor modeling data including
• a plurality of cell data for a plurality of cells of the nuclear reactor model, each cell defined by one or both of bounding of surfaces and regions of space, each cell data including a physical location, a material identifier, and a geometry of the associated cell of the nuclear reactor model,
• nuclear reactor performance data including fuel cell swelling and fuel depletion, and
• nuclear material data including cycle load data;
• a simulator including a plurality of simulator modules including a neutronics simulator module, a fuel burn simulator module, a thermal hydraulics simulator module, and a material performance simulator module, the simulator coupled to the modeling interface and configured to generate simulation data for the modeling interface, the neutronics simulator module interacting with the fuel burn simulator module, the thermal hydraulics simulator module and the material performance simulator module to iteratively produce time dependent nuclear reactor simulation of at least a portion of the nuclear reactor simulation data for the modeling interface;
• the modeling interface configured to:
• selectively and iteratively send the nuclear reactor modeling data to one or more selected simulator modules of the simulator to generate nuclear reactor simulation data;
• receive the nuclear reactor simulation data including
• neutronics data, fuel burn data, thermal hydraulics data, material performance data;
• analyze and update the nuclear reactor modeling data and the simulation data to maintain updated nuclear reactor modeling data that represents a new state of the nuclear reactor;
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• standardize the updated nuclear reactor modeling data to create updated standardized modeling data of the abstract nuclear reactor model to represent an updated state of the nuclear reactor core for export to a database, the updated standardized modeling data further includes one or more variables including at least one of the group comprising density, flux, power, and flow, wherein standardizing includes defining structural and behavioral patterns in an object oriented environment that are sufficient to describe a state of the nuclear reactor model at an identified moment in time;
• a database, coupled to the modeling interface, and configured to receive the standardized data, whereby the standardized data is maintained for subsequent analysis.