John Stilley

Okay, after talking to Alex, the situation is that this `try`/`except` has existed for over a decade: https://github.com/terrapower/armi/blob/827d223cd6fc085c039390a2c3a0391f4e611fe5/armi/context.py#L111-L129 but at _some_ point, recently, on Windows, it has started spraying the...

@mgjarrett Can you put a short release note under the [API Changes](https://github.com/terrapower/armi/blob/f9903fe5a5d30ceda389d6494020f7a0c0f01b92/doc/release/0.3.rst?plain=1#L16) section? Thanks!

~It's odd this change doesn't require any unit tests changes, right?~ Okay, we have unit tests for things like "make sure `VOLUME_INTEGRATED` works", but not testing it for each Parameter....

## Implementation of Plugin System The first important design idea to understand is ARMI it is a framework for nuclear reactor modeling. What this means, is that none of the...

My solution for this is to allow users to set which nuclide data source they want to use. It is strange that ARMI enforces one data set. But the nuclide...

@jakehader @drewj-usnctech FYI. Here is my first draft of this ticket. Feel free to holler if we need to change the verbage.