As fuel vendors and designers pursue the development of advanced reactors or the increase in burnup limits for existing reactors, advanced computational tools are necessary to understand the fuel performance. BISON, a fuel performance code developed primarily at Idaho National Laboratory, which is built upon the Multiphysics Object-Oriented Simulation Environment (MOOSE), provides capabilities to analyze multiple nuclear fuel forms in a wide variety of dimensions. Since its inception, BISON has been used to investigate the performance of light-water reactor fuel rods, accident tolerant fuel concepts, metallic and mixed-oxide (MOX) fuels for fast reactors, plate fuels for research reactors, and tri-structural isotropic (TRISO) fuel particles. This talk will provide a history of BISON, highlights of major development milestones, tributes to key contributors, and applications of its use to various fuel forms in one-, two-, and three-dimensions.
