Comparison Among Monte Carlo Based Burnup Codes Applied to the GFR Demonstrator ALLEGRO

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.15377/2409-5818.2018.05.1" target="_blank" >10.15377/2409-5818.2018.05.1</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Comparison Among Monte Carlo Based Burnup Codes Applied to the GFR Demonstrator ALLEGRO

Original language description

This paper aims to compare three Monte Carlo (MC) burnup based codes, i.e. MCNP6, Monteburns and Serpent on a future prototype reactor, named ALLEGRO, based on Gas cooled Fast Reactor (GFR) technology. GFR reactors are one of the proposed Generation-IV fast reactors; ALLEGRO facility is scheduled to be built in Europe as a GFR demonstrator, so its deepened simulation can help in its future development. The present study follows other researches already performed and aims to exhibit the different approaches in burnup calculations applied to a gas cooled fast reactors, i.e. this paper would like to show and to compare some results concerning nuclear parameters as keff and flux spectra, as well as the mass inventories versus burnup for some nuclides evaluated with different Monte Carlo codes. From obtained results, it seems to exist some differences in evaluation of nuclear parameters, mainly in effective multiplication factor and in mass inventories. The remaining differences are mainly related to calculation time: indeed between the fastest, that is SERPENT, and the slowest, that are MCNP6 and MONTEBURNS, the differences are about one order of magnitude. As far as precision is concerned, it was considered the standard only for effective multiplication factor and it seems that all codes are in good agreement.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

20305 - Nuclear related engineering; (nuclear physics to be 1.3);

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Global Journal of Energy Technology Research Updates

ISSN

2409-5818

e-ISSN

2409-5818

Volume of the periodical

5

Issue of the periodical within the volume

January

Country of publishing house

PK - PAKISTAN

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

1-10

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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