5. Reactor Parameters

This document lists all of the Reactor Parameters that are provided by the ARMI Framework and included plugins.

Reactor Parameters from Framework

Name	Description	Units
rdIterNum	Number of region-density equilibrium iterations	int
cycle	current cycle of the simulation	int
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.	fraction
capacityFactor	The fraction of power produced by the plant this cycle over the full-power, 100% uptime potential of the plant.	fraction
lcoe	Levelised cost of electricity	$/kWh
time	Time of reactor life from BOL to current time node	yr
timeNode	timeNode
eFeedMT	Total feed material required in reactor economics	MT
eFissile	Fissile mass required in reactor economics	MT
eFuelCycleCost	Cost of fuel cycle in an equilibrium-mode in reactor economics	$/MT
eFuelCycleCostRate	Rate of fuel cycle cost in an equilibrium mode in reactor economics	$/year
eProduct	Total mass of manufactured fuel in reactor economics	MT
eSWU	Separative work units in reactor economics	kgSWU
eTailsMT	Depleted Uranium in reactor economics	MT