Burnup analysis

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Hi guys,

I will conduct an analysis where I need to report the results at different burnup steps: 0, 0.1, 0.2, 4 and 8 MWd/tU. Please, someone can tell how to include these burnup steps in my depletion simulation?

Thanks,

Javier

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Hi Javier,

After you create an Operator, you can ask for the total heavy metal mass in [g] via the heavy_metal attribute:

op = openmc.deplete.Operator(geometry, settings)
grams = op.heavy_metal

With that, you can then figure out what those burnup steps would correspond to in seconds. Note that a future version may allow users to specify this directly.

Best regards,
Paul

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Okay Paul, thanks for letting me know about the new improvements, great!

Javier