TY - GEN
T1 - VERA MPACT depletion validation for a variety of pwr fuel types and burnable absorbers
AU - Mohamed, Ali
AU - Gentry, Cole
AU - Godfrey, Andrew
AU - Franceschini, Fausto
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 by PHYSOR 2018. All Rights Reserved.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - This paper presents comparisons of MPACT, the neutronic component of the CASL Virtual Environment for Reactor Applications, against the continuous energy Monte Carlo code SERPENT2. A variety of challenging PWR assembly test cases representative of PWR operating conditions were selected to perform this validation. These cases were modeled in both codes at various fuel temperature conditions with depletion up to 60 MWd/kU fuel burnup. Excellent agreement between MPACT and SERPENT2 was observed for reactivity and pin power predictions for the modeled cases, confirming the adequacy of VERA to simulate a variety of currently operating PWRs.
AB - This paper presents comparisons of MPACT, the neutronic component of the CASL Virtual Environment for Reactor Applications, against the continuous energy Monte Carlo code SERPENT2. A variety of challenging PWR assembly test cases representative of PWR operating conditions were selected to perform this validation. These cases were modeled in both codes at various fuel temperature conditions with depletion up to 60 MWd/kU fuel burnup. Excellent agreement between MPACT and SERPENT2 was observed for reactivity and pin power predictions for the modeled cases, confirming the adequacy of VERA to simulate a variety of currently operating PWRs.
KW - Method of Characteristics
KW - MOC
KW - MPACT
KW - SERPENT
KW - Validation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85106012128&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85106012128
T3 - International Conference on Physics of Reactors, PHYSOR 2018: Reactor Physics Paving the Way Towards More Efficient Systems
SP - 4141
EP - 4150
BT - International Conference on Physics of Reactors, PHYSOR 2018
PB - Sociedad Nuclear Mexicana, A.C.
T2 - 2018 International Conference on Physics of Reactors: Reactor Physics Paving the Way Towards More Efficient Systems, PHYSOR 2018
Y2 - 22 April 2018 through 26 April 2018
ER -