4. Reactor Parameters

This document lists all of the Reactor Parameters that are provided by the ARMI Framework. See armi.reactor.parameters for use.

Reactor Parameters from Framework

Name	Description	Units
cycle	Current cycle of the simulation (integer)
cycleLength	Length of the cycle, including outage time described by availabilityFactor	days
stepLength	Length of current step	days
availabilityFactor	Availability factor of the plant. This is the fraction of the time that the plant is operating.
capacityFactor	The fraction of power produced by the plant this cycle over the full-power, 100% uptime potential of the plant.
lcoe	Levelised cost of electricity	USD/kWh
time	Time of reactor life from BOL to current time node	yr
timeNode	Integer timeNode
maxAssemNum	Max number of assemblies created so far in the Reactor (integer)
eFeedMT	Total feed material required in reactor economics	MT
eFissile	Fissile mass required in reactor economics	MT
eSWU	Separative work units in reactor economics	kg*SWU