Principal Investigator Benoit Forget
The MIT Reactor (MITR-II) is scheduled to convert from highly enriched uranium (HEU) fuel to low-enriched uranium (LEU) fuel by 2015 under the Reduced Enrichment for Research and Test Reactors (RERTR) Program managed by the Office of Nuclear Material Threat Reduction in the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). To meet that goal, a high-density monolithic U-Mo LEU fuel has been proposed to replace the current HEU fuel while maintaining the flux levels necessary for continued operation. Our group provides support for neutronic analysis for the LEU and transition cores.