b'2.Fresh fuel commissioning tests to5.Data synthesis and detailedFigure 1. Overview of current ARES qualify the TREAT testing platformexperimental evaluation will beproject schedulefor providing required nuclearperformed using BISON and JAEA heating and thermomechanicalfuel performance codes.boundary conditions and measur- The outcomes of these experiments ing the associated fuel response.will directly serve needs of the 3.Four integral experiments willU.S. and Japanese SFR research and be performed in TREAT includ- commercial communities. The project ing two irradiated metallic fuelis establishing crucial infrastructure specimens (called M-TOP/M-LOFat TREAT and associated hot cells to series) and two MOX fuel speci- address existing data gaps and extend mens (called MOXTOP series).the existing database while paving 4.Pre- and Post-Transient Examina- the way to future experiments. The tions will be performed on theTemperature Heat Sink Overpower EBR-II-irradiated metallic andResponse (THOR) test device is MOX fuel test specimens. already planned to support five different test series and four different customers with additional consider-ation by industry users. 2021|AFC ACCOMPLISHMENTS 123'