BISON is a nuclear fuel performance application built using the Multiphysics Object-Oriented
Simulation Environment (MOOSE) finite element library. One of its major goals is to have a …

Complex multiphysics simulations such as those used in nuclear fuel performance analysis
are composed of many submodels used to describe specific phenomena. These …

Fuel performance codes are critical tools for the design, certification, and safety analysis of
nuclear reactors. However, their ability to predict fuel behavior under abnormal conditions is …

BISON is a finite element-based nuclear fuel performance code applicable to a variety of fuel
forms including light water reactor fuel rods, TRISO particle fuel, and metallic rod and plate …

Because of its widespread use in multiple advanced reactor concepts, the ability to
accurately simulate tri-structural isotropic (TRISO) fuel performance is essential for ensuring …

The role of uncertainties in fission gas behavior calculations as part of engineering-scale
nuclear fuel modeling is investigated using the BISON fuel performance code with a recently …

Abstract Iron-chromium-aluminum (FeCrAl) alloys are candidates to be used as nuclear fuel
cladding for increased accident tolerance. An analysis of the response of FeCrAl under …

BISON is a modern finite element-based nuclear fuel performance code that has been under
development at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) since 2009. The code is applicable to both …

This paper demonstrates a multiphysics solver for pebble-bed reactors, in particular, for
Berkeley's pebble-bed-fluoride-salt-cooled high-temperature reactor (PB-FHR)(Mark I …

Tristructural isotropic (TRISO)-coated particle fuel is a robust nuclear fuel and determining its
reliability is critical for the success of advanced nuclear technologies. However, TRISO …