Assessment of ORIGEN Reactor Library Development for Pebble-Bed Reactors Based on the PBMR-400 Benchmark

Steve E. Skutnik; William A. Wieselquist

doi:10.2172/1807271

Assessment of ORIGEN Reactor Library Development for Pebble-Bed Reactors Based on the PBMR-400 Benchmark

Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Cycle Analysis

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This report provides an evaluation of present SCALE capabilities for modeling depletion of pebble-bed reactor systems, using the PBMR-400 benchmark as a test case. A specific aim of this work is to understand the system characteristics required to generate production-quality reactor data libraries for rapid depletion calculations with ORIGEN. This report includes a discussion of present SCALE capabilities for modeling doubly heterogeneous fuels, prior SCALE work modeling pebble bed–type reactors, and a detailed neutronic analysis of the PBMR-400 core for both fresh and equilibrium-composition core conditions.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	United States
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2172/1807271
State	Published - 2021

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11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS
73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING

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Assessment of ORIGEN Reactor Library Development for Pebble-Bed Reactors Based on the PBMR-400 Benchmark

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