Significant effort is devoted to computational simulations of these processes, and to applications of these simulations in overlapping areas, such as radiation protection, radiation cancer therapy, and general computational physics. In an effort to increase the utilization of uranium resources and thereby reduce the fuel cycle cost in current generation of light water reactors. The recycling feasibility in light water reactors of the entire transuranics, Np, Pu, Am, and Cm, from spent nuclear fuel is also an active area of study. Probabilistic Safety and Reliability Analysis Probabilistic risk analysis examines possible sequences of events in an effort to calculate the risk associated with postulated severe accidents. Genetic algorithms running on artificial neural networks that can be used to generate an approximation to passive safety system limit surfaces of advanced reactor designs is one example.
Recent codes allow for complex simulation at speeds faster than real time. .