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H.B. Robinson-2 pressure vessel dosimetry benchmark: Deterministic three-dimensional analysis with the TORT transport code  

Orsi, Roberto (ENEA C.R.E. E. Clementel)
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Nuclear Engineering and Technology / v.52, no.2, 2020 , pp. 448-455 More about this Journal
Abstract
The H.B. Robinson Unit 2 (HBR-2) pressure vessel dosimetry benchmark is an in- and ex-Reactor Pressure Vessel (RPV) neutron dosimetry benchmark based on experimental data from the HBR-2 reactor, a 2300-MW PWR designed by Westinghouse and put in operation in March 1971, openly available through the SINBAD Database at OECD/NEA data Bank. The goals of the present work were to carry out three-dimensional (3D) fixed source transport calculations in both Cartesian (X,Y,Z) and cylindrical (R,θ,Z) geometries by using the TORT-3.2 discrete ordinates code on very detailed 3D HBR-2 geometrical models and to test the latest broad-group coupled (47 neutron groups + 20 photon groups) working cross section libraries in FIDO-ANISN format with same structure as BUGLE-96, such as BUGJEFF311.BOLIB, BUGENDF70.BOLIB and BUGLE-B7. The results obtained with all the cited libraries were satisfactory and are here reported and compared.
Keywords
HBR-2 benchmark; TORT; Discrete-ordinates; BUGLE-96; BUGJEFF311.BOLIB; BUGLE-B7;
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