On scale validation for PBR analysis

Germina Ilas

On scale validation for PBR analysis

Germina Ilas

Nuclear Transmutation & Decay Physics

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Abstract

Studies were performed to assess the capabilities of the SCALE code system to provide accurate cross sections for analyses of pebble bed reactor configurations. The analyzed configurations are representative of fuel in the HTR-10 reactor in the first critical core and at full power operation conditions. Relevant parameters-multiplication constant, spectral indices, few-group cross sections-are calculated with SCALE for the considered configurations. The results are compared to results obtained with corresponding consistent MCNP models. The code-to-code comparison shows good agreement at both room and operating temperatures, indicating a good performance of SCALE for analysis of doubly heterogeneous fuel configurations.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	International Conference on the Physics of Reactors 2010, PHYSOR 2010
Publisher	American Nuclear Society
Pages	1202-1211
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	9781617820014
State	Published - 2010
Event	International Conference on the Physics of Reactors 2010, PHYSOR 2010 - Pittsburgh, United States Duration: May 9 2010 → May 14 2010

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Name	International Conference on the Physics of Reactors 2010, PHYSOR 2010
Volume	2

Conference

Conference	International Conference on the Physics of Reactors 2010, PHYSOR 2010
Country/Territory	United States
City	Pittsburgh
Period	05/9/10 → 05/14/10

Keywords

Cross sections
HTR-10
MCNP
Pebble bed reactor
SCALE

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