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Issue48 #50

Closed katyhuff closed 6 years ago

katyhuff commented 6 years ago

Addresses issue #48 . The document has been rearranged dramatically. This is now the arrangement:

  1. Introduction
  2. Methods 2.1 Cyclus 2.2 Nuclear Deployment in the European Union 2.3 Material Flow 2.4 Scenario Specifications 2.5 Reactor Specifications 2.6 Material Definitions
  3. Results 3.1 Nuclear Material Inventory 3.2 French SFR Deployment 3.3 Transition Reprocessing Dynamics
  4. Conclusion
katyhuff commented 6 years ago

I think the French SFR deployment is more of an input than a result?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the deployment schedule for SFRs wasn't explicitly stated in the input file, correct? Sure, it was implicitly stated with the demand growth (flat), but the GrowthRegion nailed down the details when the simulation ran. The ability to deploy the correct number of discrete reactors to meet demand in a timely fashion (as other reactors shut down) may seem trivial, but it's an important capability of cycamore. It was a result given by the tool, not an input value explicitly stated by the user. Perhaps sadly, there are plenty of simulators that don't know how many 600MWe SFRs to deploy when a 1000MWe LWR shuts down.

jbae11 commented 6 years ago

Actually, I didn't use GrowthRegion to come up with the deployment schedule for SFR, since for GrowthRegion you couldn't specify which reactor to deploy for power. I did it using excel (yikes) but maybe I can write a python script that takes the output file from the first simulation and generate a deployment schedule for SFRs.

katyhuff commented 6 years ago

Are you ok with this PR or what, @jbae11 ?

jbae11 commented 6 years ago

Yeah. The GrowthRegion needs to be figured out later, though.

katyhuff commented 6 years ago

Ah, right! The best way to make sure everything that needs to be changed before merging a PR is to say clearly what I should change during the review.

katyhuff commented 6 years ago

I'll open another issue to indicate the remaining problem with the GrowthRegion.