Nuclear Engineering and Technology

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  • Pages.1-18
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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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Analysis of VVER-1000 mock-up criticality experiments with nuclear data library ENDF/B-VIII.0 and Monte Carlo code MCS

  • Setiawan, Fathurrahman (Department of Nuclear Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Lemaire, Matthieu (Department of Nuclear Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Lee, Deokjung (Department of Nuclear Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology)
  • 투고 : 2020.02.26
  • 심사 : 2020.06.10
  • 발행 : 2021.01.25
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The criticality analysis of VVER-1000 mock-up benchmark experiments from the LR-0 research reactor operated by the Research Center Rez in the Czech Republic has been conducted with the MCS Monte Carlo code developed at the Computational Reactor Physics and Experiment laboratory of the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology. The main purpose of this work is to evaluate the newest ENDF/B-VIII.0 nuclear data library against the VVER-1000 mock-up integral experiments and to validate the criticality analysis capability of MCS for light water reactors with hexagonal fuel lattices. A preliminary code/code comparison between MCS and MCNP6 is first conducted to verify the suitability of MCS for the benchmark interpretation, then the validation against experimental data is performed with both ENDF/B-VII.1 and ENDF/B-VIII.0 libraries. The investigated experimental data comprises six experimental critical configurations and four experimental pin-by-pin power maps. The MCS and MCNP6 inputs used for the criticality analysis of the VVER-1000 mock-up are available as supplementary material of this article.

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This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIT). (No. NRF-2019M2D2A1A03058371).

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