XIMAGE is a graphical fuel management and loading pattern generation tool that provides core design engineers with a sophisticated interface to simplify fuel shuffling and the evaluation of alternative loading patterns.
In today’s environment of constrained engineering resources and escalating uranium costs, efficient navigation from scoping calculations to a final core design loading pattern is crucial.
Whether an organization is confirming a fuel vendor’s proposed design or designing the core themselves, it is essential to answer the hard questions: Does the fuel and core design proposed really meet the energy generation and thermal margin requirements? Could the loading pattern be improved? How can this be done efficiently and accurately?
XIMAGE meets these challenges with an intuitive graphical interface and seamless coupling to Studsvik’s industry-leading core analysis neutronic system.
XIMAGE has been applied in core design studies for virtually every BWR and PWR fuel and core design in existence today. Whether the fuel is high- or low-enriched, uranium or MOX, mixed mechanical & neutronic bundle designs or homogenous; XIMAGE has been successfully used to improve the core design process.