it would probably be good to better understand this and move toward ring/pos sorting since it is much more intuitive to the user. (the first assembly is in the center of the core rather than some random assembly on the edge and the center comes ~halfway through)
when we sorted assemblies it was originally meant to be useful, by ring/pos but there were internal test issues: https://github.com/terrapower/armi/pull/1305
it would probably be good to better understand this and move toward ring/pos sorting since it is much more intuitive to the user. (the first assembly is in the center of the core rather than some random assembly on the edge and the center comes ~halfway through)