Material Inventory Nuclear Tracking Simulator (MINTs) Documentation
Welcome to the Material Inventory and Nuclear Tracking simulator (MINTs) documentation page.
The repository is divided into subpackages for facilities, fuel_cycles, and includes submodules for containers (implementations of the Material Balance Areas (MBAs) in the simulation), and resouces (items and material types used in the fuel cycle simulations).
Installation
The MINTS package can be installed via pip by cloning the repository and then using pip to install the package:
git clone https://github.com/pnnl/MINTs.git
cd MINTs/mints
pip install -e .
Getting Started
Once the package is installed, you can begin running any of the implemented fuel cycle simulations by simply importing the package:
from mints.fuel_cycles import PHWR
fuel_cycle = PHWR()
number_of_weeks = 52
fuel_cycle.run_simulation(number_of_weeks)
The Jupyter Notebook MINTs_Demo.ipynb in the MINTs reposistory provides more thorough examples for running and viewing the output of the built-in fuel cycles, and documentation explaining how the configuration files work (and can be used for designing your own custom fuel cycles) can be found in the documentation of the Fuel Cycle subpackage.