John Stilley

Allowing the BOL orientations to be set in the blueprints

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## What is the change? Why is it being made? This was a new feature request. In the past, all orientations for high-level BP / Core children start with the...

Adding tooling to help people build the docs locally

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## What is the change? Why is it being made? Adding some tooling and automation so that people can more easily build the docs locally. You will notice in this...

Interface.function needs to be renamed

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This is extremely unclear: https://github.com/terrapower/armi/blob/ac9a81c70ecc8b48dd790643b3e9a98b67c098a4/armi/interfaces.py#L291-L292 The word `function` already has a very specific meaning in Python, and this is not it at all. This should be renamed to "utility" or...

Can we replace the LocationBase class?

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We have a class called `LocationBase`: https://github.com/terrapower/armi/blob/6febc6529f4f8430fe56aa67d4f68ae805469324/armi/reactor/grids/locations.py#L30 But in the class docstring it says that this was only needed because of a bug in Python 2: https://github.com/terrapower/armi/blob/6febc6529f4f8430fe56aa67d4f68ae805469324/armi/reactor/grids/locations.py#L38-L41 Since ARMI now...

## What is the change? Why is it being made? I have asked my power users and we believe the following `Setting`s are unused and can safely be deleted: *...

Users too frequently have to make an ARMI PR to touch Settings and Parameters

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@keckler noted that ARMI developers too frequently have to make PRs into ARMI to deal with `Setting`s and `Parameter`s defined in ARMI. That is a system design problem. It seems...

Add a count of how many settings are in ARMI

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## What is the change? Why is it being made? The documentation currently contains a "Settings Report". This PR is a very small change to that report; right at the...

Set materials.FAIL_ON_RANGE to True by default

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## What is the change? Why is it being made? We want to set `armi.material.materials.FAIL_ON_RANGE` to `True` by default. For the past ~14 years, there has been an uncomfortable situation...

Thermal Expansion should be a Plugin / Interface

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The thermal expansion logic in ARMI seems to hyper-specific to Sodium Fast reactor designs. That is counter to the ARMI design goals of being a tool useful to the general...

## What is the change? Why is it being made? Our user docs looked like this: But that is confusing because all of these "parameters" pages are parameter reports (list...