Nuclear Engineering and Technology

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  • Pages.19-29
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  • 2021
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  • 1738-5733(pISSN)
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  • 2234-358X(eISSN)
한국원자력학회 (Korean Nuclear Society)
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Validation of UNIST Monte Carlo code MCS for criticality safety calculations with burnup credit through MOX criticality benchmark problems

  • Ta, Duy Long (Department of Nuclear Engineering, Hanyang University) ;
  • Hong, Ser Gi (Department of Nuclear Engineering, Hanyang University) ;
  • Lee, Deokjung (Department of Nuclear Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology)
  • 투고 : 2020.04.17
  • 심사 : 2020.06.10
  • 발행 : 2021.01.25
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This paper presents the validation of the MCS code for critical safety analysis with burnup credit for the spent fuel casks. The validation process in this work considers five critical benchmark problem sets, which consist of total 80 critical experiments having MOX fuels from the International Criticality Safety Benchmark Evaluation Project (ICSBEP). The similarity analysis with the use of sensitivity and uncertainty tool TSUNAMI in SCALE was used to determine the applicable benchmark experiments corresponding to each spent fuel cask model and then the Upper Safety Limits (USLs) except for the isotopic validation were evaluated following the guidance from NUREG/CR-6698. The validation process in this work was also performed with the MCNP6 for comparison with the results using MCS calculations. The results of this work showed the consistence between MCS and MCNP6 for the MOX fueled criticality benchmarks, thus proving the reliability of the MCS calculations.

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We are very grateful for funding and technical supports from Mr. Ho Cheol Shin and Hwan Soo Lee in Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Central Research Institute (KHNP-CRI).

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