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terrapower / armi

An open-source nuclear reactor analysis automation framework that helps design teams increase efficiency and quality
https://terrapower.github.io/armi/
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New Setting to swap in different Nuclide data #1195

Open john-science opened 1 year ago

john-science commented 1 year ago

We recently updated our RIPL nuclides. But some people are asking for the ability to use different nuclide data files in ARMI:

Reasons for this include backporting to older versions of the nuclide data to check and make sure old results haven't changed. Though some people might be working on improving nuclide data, and want to test that out.

This seems like a good use for a Setting, but I might also accept some reasonably easy code solution for changing out the nuclide library.

This ticket probably can't happen until we take our nuclide data out of the global space: https://github.com/terrapower/armi/issues/473

john-science commented 1 year ago

@jakehader @drewj-usnctech FYI. Here is my first draft of this ticket. Feel free to holler if we need to change the verbage.