Vision
The Advanced Modeling and Simulation Office (AMSO), within the Office of Nuclear Energy (NE), has been charged with revolutionizing the design tools for nuclear engineers and scientists. To accomplish this, the Department will engage the National Laboratories, U.S. universities, and the nuclear energy industry to ensure that meaningful advances with user-friendly environments are made available within the next few years, and that substantial work is completed in no more than ten years.
Our vision is to create as a community the next generation of advanced nuclear modeling and simulation tools that scale to meet the needs of the user and address the complexity of the problem.
AMSO is responsible for the planning and execution of two programs:
- Nuclear Energy Advanced Modeling and Simulation (NEAMS)
- and the NE Modeling and Simulation Energy Innovation Hub
It is important to emphasize that these programs are separate and serve different purposes.
- NEAMS is developing new predictive modeling and simulation capabilities and directly supports the NE research and development programs that are developing new nuclear energy technologies such as:
- Waste Repositories
- Safeguarded Separations Systems
- Advanced Reactor Concepts
- Innovative Designs for Nuclear Fuels
- The NE Modeling and Simulation Energy Innovation Hub is intended to have a near term impact on nuclear energy, the technology vendors and the utility operators by applying existing modeling and simulation capabilities to existing operating reactors (Gen II).
While NEAMS and the Hub serve unique purposes, they both are working to develop and use advanced modeling and simulation on high performance computers which is why they are both programs are managed by AMSO. One major goal of this office is to ensure that the research is coordinated and that duplicative work is avoided.
