MINIMIZER:A COMPUTER CODE FOR DETERMINING MINIMUM FUEL COST

摘要

The MINIMIZER code is an IBM 7090 computer code used in con-junction with other Hanford Laboratory computer codes to estimate the most probable minimum fuel cost from a set of fuel cost data. The deter¬mination of a minimum fuel cost is important to selection of overall opti¬mum reactor operating conditions. In addition, deriving the operating point from the minimum fuel cost point provides a consistent basis for evalua¬ting process and economic changes within a given fuel cycle and for comparing fuel cycles using different fuel materials.nThis report describes the MINIMIZER code and demonstrates its accuracy with various sets of data. Machine printouts of the computer pro¬gram and of a complete example case are presented in the Appendixes.