Neutron flux measurement and calculation behind wer-1000 reactor pressure vessel simulator placed in LR-0 reactor

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Neutron flux measurement and calculation behind wer-1000 reactor pressure vessel simulator placed in LR-0 reactor

Original language description

The neutron fluence in the reactor pressure vessel is an important physical quantity affecting material degradation, which reflects in the vessel residual lifetime. The measured fluxes are normalized per InA of monitor current, which corresponds to 0.01 W of thermal power, or 3.631E8 fiss/s. The scaling factor for such evaluation was determined from neutron flux in reference position, evaluated by means of reaction rate in well defined activation detector. This scaling factor was verified by means of gamma spectroscopy of irradiated fuel. This independent method is based on the proportionality between the net peak area (NPA) of selected fission product and released energy. 92Sr fission product is used on the LR-0 reactor due to its suitable values of gamma energies with no parasitic peaks and half-life allowing reasonable manipulation time after irradiation. 92Sr has also no coincidence photons with measurable activity after defined irradiation conditions and it has also little difference between the theoretical and measured decay. Both neutron and photon transport calculations were performed with the MCNPX 2.6.0 code with different nuclear data libraries. The fast fluxes behind the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) simulator were calculated using fixed source model with defined (calculated by MCNPX) power density across core. The results clearly show the distinguishable dependency of nuclear data libraries on the results. The effect of different libraries is mostly notable in the fluxes over 5 MeV, where the JENDL 4 results overestimate experiment by 46 %, while JEFF 3.1 by 9.5 %.

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

JF - Nuclear energy

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

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

Article name in the collection

Mathematics and Computations, Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications and Monte Carlo International Conference (M&C+SNA+MC 2015)

ISBN

978-1-5108-0804-1

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Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

3102-3112

Publisher name

American Nuclear Society ( ANS )

Place of publication

La Grange Park, IL, USA

Event location

Nashville, Tennessee, USA

Event date

Apr 19, 2015

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

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