Evaluation of large 3600 mwth sodium-cooled fast reactor oecd neutronic benchmarks

L. Buiron, G. Rimpault, B. Fontaine, T. K. Kim, N. E. Stauff, T. A. Taiwo, A. Yamaji, J. Gulliford, E. Fridmann, I. Pataki, A. Kereszt ri, A. T ta, K. Kugo, K. Sugino, M. M. Uematsu, R. Lin Tan, T. Kozlowski, C. Parisi, A. Ponomarev

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Abstract

Within the activities of the Working Party on Scientific Issues of Reactor Systems (WPRS) of the OECD, an international collaboration is ongoing on the neutronic analyses of several Generation-IV Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor (SFR) concepts. This paper summarizes the results obtained by participants from institutions of different countries (ANL, CEA, ENEA, HZDR, JAEA, CER, KIT, UIUC) for the large core numerical benchmarks. These results have been obtained using different calculation methods and analysis tools to estimate the core reactivity and isotopic composition evolution, neutronic feedbacks and power distribution. For the different core concepts analyzed, a satisfactory agreement was obtained between participants despite the different calculation schemes used. A good agreement was generally obtained when comparing compositions after burnup, the delayed neutron fraction, the Doppler coefficient, and the sodium void worth. However, some noticeable discrepancies between the k-effective values were observed and are explained in this paper. These are mostly due to the different neutronic libraries employed (JEFF3.1, ENDFB7.0 or JENDL-4.0) and to a lesser extent the calculations methods.

Original languageEnglish (US)
StatePublished - 2014
Event2014 International Conference on Physics of Reactors, PHYSOR 2014 - Kyoto, Japan
Duration: Sep 28 2014Oct 3 2014

Conference

Conference2014 International Conference on Physics of Reactors, PHYSOR 2014
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityKyoto
Period9/28/1410/3/14

Keywords

  • 3600MWth SFR
  • Carbide
  • OECD Benchmark
  • Oxide

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Nuclear Energy and Engineering

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