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Plug-In Electric Vehicle Showcases: Consumer Experience and Acceptance

In 2016 the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) announced three awardees to hold plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) showcases to demonstrate available technologies and provide a hands-on consumer experience at conveniently located, brand-neutral settings. The events varied in style from long term stationary storefront settings to weekend events at a variety of regional venues. Attendees could interact with the technology through ride-and-drives and longer-term test drives. The events began in the spring of 2017 and continued through 2019.

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RG217 V2-V2 Coaxial Cable Acceptance Test

The ECSE Solid State Pulsed Power unit is a high current, high power solid-state pulse modulator. The RG217 V2-V2 Coaxial Cable Assembly is the interface cable between the Solid State Pulser and the load. This document covers the testing procedure for the RG217 V2-V2 Coaxial Cable Assembly. This assembly is comprised of RG217 Coaxial Cable with a LRU Connector on either end. This test procedure verifies the cable is undamaged and assembled correctly, the correct cable connectors are installed properly onto the cable, and that the entire assembly meets conductivity and holdoff voltage requirements. This procedure will verify that the RG217 Coaxial Cable Assembly meets all assembly and functional requirements. In particular, this procedure verifies the Cable Shield and Center Conductor meet conductivity requirements by testing their resistances. Additionally, this procedure ensures the RG217 Coaxial Cable Assembly meets holdoff voltage requirements by applying high voltage and verifying the RG217 Coaxial Cable Assembly does not experience any breakdowns or arcing.

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Acceptance Testing of the Scorpius Sweep Magnet

A beam-dump magnet for Scorpius has been defined by LANL and designed and built by Radiabeam Technologies. Initial verification of the Radiabeam design used a magnetic field model provided by Radiabeam and analyzed by LANL tools during September 2021. Simulations indicated that the design was sufficient to meet deflection requirements to protect sensitive equipment in the case of a failed target. In January 2022, the magnet was fabricated and Radiabeam conducted measurements of the magnetic field as a function of position. The measurements deviate somewhat from the simulation. In particular, the peak magnetic field is 10-15% smaller in magnitude than expected from simulation. This note compares the magnetic field measurements to simulation and to measurements of the existing DARHT magnet, which was designed for the same purpose. We show a comparison of the measured beam deflection performance between Scorpius and DARHT and show updated results of LANL’s electron beam tracking code using the Scorpius measurements. Using field measurements we find that the DARHT magnet will deflect a 19.6 MeV electron beam by 46.6° and the Scorpius magnet will deflect by 44.6°. These results show that the as-built Scorpius magnet has met design requirements for beam deflection.

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Energy and transverse acceptance calculation of the 750 keV RFQTS with Parmteqm

Using the code Parmteq and a model of the 750 keV test stand RFQ produced by Kress, labeled ‘as11c’, I calculate the effect on RFQ beam transmission in the following cases: 1. Varying input energy spread, 2. Transverse mismatch of the input beam, 3. Varying input emittance of matched beam, and 4. Injection offset of beam centroid. For this model, the RFQ transmission is 96.3%, input energy 35 keV, and beam current 35 mA.

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Venado acceptance: results and tips [Slides]

Nvidia compiler support is not available through cray-mpich/compiler wrapper interface. Adjust CMAKE files to use the correct COMPILER_ID in conditionals and explicit variables to package flags. Use pinned host memory in cray-libsci_acc and cublasXt calls. Set a large blockDim for cublasXt calls. Try MPS and/or explicit numactl binding if performance is lackluster. Use CRAY_MALLOPT_OFF=1 if unexpected OOM errors appear using cce. Use MPICH_SMP_SINGLE_COPY_MODE=CMA for xpmem issues. Use MPICH_OPT_THREAD_SYNC=0 for MPI_THREAD issues. Poor CUDA-aware MPI performance remains an issue.

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FAST-1.0 Software Acceptance Testing Report

The purpose of this document is to detail the software testing of FAST-1.0 through unit, integration, and assessment tests. More than 400 tests were designed to provide coverage of the requirements for FAST-1.0. These requirements were developed in the NRC Statement of Work (SOW) for NRC Agreement Number NRC-HQ-25-14-D-001 and are transcribed to this document as part of the Software Quality Assurance Plan for the FAST Code System, PNNL-28767. FAST 1.0 represents the merger of the FRAPCON and FRAPTRAN codes and as such FAST-1.0 performs steady state and transient fuel performance calculations described below. FAST-1.0 calculates the steady state response of light-water reactor fuel rods during long-term burnup. The code calculates temperature, pressure, and deformation of a fuel rod as functions of time-dependent fuel rod power and coolant boundary conditions. The phenomena modeled by the code include: 1) heat conduction through fuel and cladding to the coolant; 2) cladding elastic and plastic deformation; 3) fuel-cladding mechanical interaction; 4) fission gas release from the fuel and rod internal pressure; and 5) cladding oxidation. FAST is used to perform independent calculations for regulatory evaluations of fuel performance under normal operation and anticipated operational occurrences (AOOs). FAST calculates the temperature and deformation history of a fuel rod as a function of time-dependent fuel rod power and coolant boundary conditions. The phenomena modeled by FAST include: 1) heat conduction; 2) heat transfer from cladding to coolant; 3) elastic-plastic fuel and cladding deformation; 4) cladding oxidation; 5) fission gas release; and 6) fuel rod gas pressure. FAST code assessment, development and maintenance drive a significant portion of the NRC fuel research activities and the tools are used in a substantial number of regulatory products. Given the centrality of the FAST code to the effectiveness of fuel research, it is critical to assess, develop and maintain this tool.

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SAS4A/SASSYS-1 Verification Testing for Sodium Fast Reactor Application: Acceptance Testing Report

AS4A/SASSYS-1 (SAS) is a simulation tool used to perform deterministic analyses of anticipated events as well as design basis and beyond design basis accidents for advanced liquid-metal-cooled nuclear reactors. With its origin as SAS1A in the late 1960s, the SAS series of codes has been under continuous use and development for over sixty years and represents a critical investment in safety analysis capabilities for the U.S. Department of Energy. To support the dedication effort, this report has been generated to provide a detailed description of the available verification testing. The verification testing presented in this report captures functionality testing, focusing mainly on the testing of specific functions and algorithms for accuracy and precision of output, and interface testing, focusing mainly on the testing of critical input parameters and their valid ranges. Although SAS was developed to support the analysis of any liquid-metal-cooled nuclear reactor, the testing described in this document primarily focuses on the verification of SAS capabilities as they relate to a generic pool-type Sodium Fast Reactor (SFR).

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