Pebbles in Nuclear Reactor (IMAGE)

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Pebbles in Nuclear Reactor

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A near-exascale simulation of fluid velocity in a bed of 352,000 randomly packed pebbles in a nuclear reactor. This is one of the most computationally intense nuclear engineering simulations to date.

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(Image by Argonne National Laboratory.)

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