Researchers prepare for exascale supercomputer simulations of nuclear reactors
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. Credit: Argonne National Laboratory Nuclear energy is responsible for approximately one-fifth of total electricity used in the U.S., and nearly half of the country’s
Luz Ramage
September 27, 2023