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Application of a new neutronics/thermal-hydraulics coupled code for steady state analysis of light water reactors

  • Safavi, Amir;Esteki, Mohammad Hossein;Mirvakili, Seyed Mohammad;Arani, Mehdi Khaki
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제52권8호
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    • pp.1603-1610
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    • 2020
  • Due to ever-growing advancements in computers and relatively easy access to them, many efforts have been made to develop high-fidelity, high-performance, multi-physics tools, which play a crucial role in the design and operation of nuclear reactors. For this purpose in this study, the neutronic Monte Carlo and thermal-hydraulic sub-channel codes entitled MCNP and COBRA-EN, respectively, were applied for external coupling with each other. The coupled code was validated by code-to-code comparison with the internal couplings between MCNP5 and SUBCHANFLOW as well as MCNP6 and CTF. The simulation results of all code systems were in good agreement with each other. Then, as the second problem, the core of the VVER-1000 v446 reactor was simulated by the MCNP4C/COBRA-EN coupled code to measure the capability of the developed code to calculate the neutronic and thermohydraulic parameters of real and industrial cases. The simulation results of VVER-1000 core were compared with FSAR and another numerical solution of this benchmark. The obtained results showed that the ability of the MCNP4C/COBRA-EN code for estimating the neutronic and thermohydraulic parameters was very satisfactory.

A Fast Neutron Time-of-Flight Spectrometer with High Resolution

  • Cho, Mann
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제4권2호
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    • pp.116-131
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    • 1972
  • Li$^{7}$ (p, n) Be$^{7}$ 원자핵반응에서 Li target의 두께와 입사양자의 에너지를 적절히 선정하므로써 1-n sec 파동 Van de Graaff 가속도로부터 keV 영역에서의 연속중성자spectrum을 발생시키고 92% 농축된 5mm 두께의 $B^{10}$ 판과 4개의 4"$\times$3" NaI (T1) 발광체로 이루어진 속중성자검출기를 이용 속중성자 비행시간법에 의한 중성자spectrometer 를 제작하였다. 장치의 에너지 분해능은 50 keV에서 0.3%보다 양호하며 신호대잡음비도 개량되었다. 이를 이용하여 몇가지 분석된 단일동위원소의 전단면적을 측정하고 R-matrix 전자계산 code로 분석하였다. 각 공명에 따르는 스핀식와 공명인수들을 찾아내었다.

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Gamma ray shielding characteristics and exposure buildup factor for some natural rocks using MCNP-5 code

  • Mahmoud, K.A.;Sayyed, M.I.;Tashlykov, O.L.
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제51권7호
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    • pp.1835-1841
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    • 2019
  • The mass attenuation coefficient ${\mu}_m$ for eight rock samples having different chemical composition was simulated using the MCNP 5 code in energy range($0.002MeV{\leq}E{\leq}10MeV$). Moreover, the ${\mu}_m$ for the studied rock samples was computed theoretically using XCOM database. The comparison between simulated and computed data for all selected rock samples showed a good agreement with differences varied between 0.01 and 8%. The highest ${\mu}_m$ was found for basalt rocks M2 and M1 and the lowest one is reported for limestone rocks Dike. The simulated values of the ${\mu}_m$ then were used to calculate other important shielding parameters such as the mean free path, effective electron density and effective atomic number. The exposure buildup factor EBF was also computed for the selected rocks with the contribution of G-P fitting parameters and the highest EBF attended by the basalt sample Sill and varied between 1.022 and 744 in the energy range between ($0.015MeV{\leq}E{\leq}15MeV$) but the lowest EBF achieved by basalt sample M2 and varied between 1.017 and 491 in the same energy range.

중성자 에너지 En=0-20 MeV에 대한 Np-237 핵분열단면적의 모형계산 (Model Calculation of the Np-237 Fission Cross-Sections for En=0 to 20 MeV)

  • 박혜일;B. 스트로마이어;M. 울
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제13권4호
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    • pp.207-220
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    • 1981
  • 예평형붕괴를 고려한 통계모형 전산코드 STAPES를 써서 NP-237핵분열 단면적을 입사중성자 에너지 20MeV까지 계산하였다. 중성자 방출에 수반되는 분열과정은 3차 복합핵까지 고려하였으며, 이중분열장벽에 관련된 주요 입력변수는 실험값의 최근 동향을 감안, 전 에너지 영역을 통하여 약 l0%의 편차범위 내에서 부합될 수 있도록 조정하였다. 계산결과는 각 에너지에 대응하는 단면적 값의 표와, 실험값과의 비교를 제시하는 그림으로 나타냈다.

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Comparison of Physics Model for 600 MeV Protons and 290 MeV·n-1 Oxygen Ions on Carbon in MCNPX

  • Lee, Arim;Kim, Donghyun;Jung, Nam-Suk;Oh, Joo-Hee;Oranj, Leila Mokhtari;Lee, Hee-Seock
    • Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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    • 제41권2호
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    • pp.123-131
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    • 2016
  • Background: With the increase in the number of particle accelerator facilities under either operation or construction, the accurate calculation using Monte Carlo codes become more important in the shielding design and radiation safety evaluation of accelerator facilities. Materials and Methods: The calculations with different physics models were applied in both of cases: using only physics model and using the mix and match method of MCNPX code. The issued conditions were the interactions of 600 MeV proton and $290MeV{\cdot}n^{-1}$ oxygen with a carbon target. Both of cross-section libraries, JENDL High Energy File 2007 (JENDL/HE-2007) and LA150, were tested in this calculation. In the case of oxygen ion interactions, the calculation results using LAQGSM physics model and JENDL/HE-2007 library were compared with D. Satoh's experimental data. Other Monte Carlo calculations using PHITS and FLUKA codes were also carried out for further benchmarking study. Results and Discussion: It was clearly found that the physics models, especially intra-nuclear cascade model, gave a great effect to determine proton-induced secondary neutron spectrum in MCNPX code. The variety of physics models related to heavy ion interactions did not make big difference on the secondary particle productions. Conclusion: The variations of secondary neutron spectra and particle transports depending on various physics models in MCNPX code were studied and the result of this study can be used for the shielding design and radiation safety evaluation.

Evaluation of dose distribution from 12C ion in radiation therapy by FLUKA code

  • Soltani-Nabipour, Jamshid;Khorshidi, Abdollah;Shojai, Faezeh;Khorami, Khazar
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제52권10호
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    • pp.2410-2414
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    • 2020
  • Heavy ions have a high potential for destroying deep tumors that carry the highest dose at the peak of Bragg. The peak caused by a single-energy carbon beam is too narrow, which requires special measures for improvement. Here, carbon-12 (12C) ion with different energies has been used as a source for calculating the dose distribution in the water phantom, soft tissue and bone by the code of Monte Carlobased FLUKA code. By increasing the energy of the initial beam, the amount of absorbed dose at Bragg peak in all three targets decreased, but the trend for this reduction was less severe in bone. While the maximum absorbed dose per bone-mass unit in energy of 200 MeV/u was about 30% less than the maximum absorbed dose per unit mass of water or soft tissue, it was merely 2.4% less than soft tissue in 400 MeV/u. The simulation result showed a good agreement with experimental data at GSI Darmstadt facility of biophysics group by 0.15 cm average accuracy in Bragg peak positioning. From 200 to 400 MeV/u incident energy, the Bragg peak location increased about 18 cm in soft tissue. Correspondingly, the bone and soft tissue revealed a reduction dose ratio by 2.9 and 1.9. Induced neutrons did not contribute more than 1.8% to the total energy deposited in the water phantom. Also during 12C ion bombardment, secondary fragments showed 76% and 24% of primary 200 and 400 MeV/u, respectively, were present at the Bragg-peak position. The combined treatment of carbon ions with neutron or electron beams may be more effective in local dose delivery and also treating malignant tumors.

L-V-C 훈련체계 연동을 위한 HLA, DDS 기반의 연동 미들웨어 게이트웨이 (Interoperable Middleware Gateway Based on HLA and DDS for L-V-C Simulation Training Systems)

  • 전형국;엄영익
    • 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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    • 제10권6호
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    • pp.345-352
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    • 2015
  • Recently, by developing many training systems in battle field, the demand for interconnecting and internetworking between Live, Virtual, Constructive training systems has been increased to support efficient data distribution and system control. But, there are lots of problems for them to interwork, because the existing researches only support L-L, V-V, C-C Interoperability. Therefore, we propose L-V-C gateway to provide interoperable simulation environment based on HLA and DDS between them. First, we illustrate FOM Management that parses RPR-FOM XML file to acquire Data information to be shared between them, and generates common data structure and source code used for L-V-C Gateway. L-V-C Gateway created from FOM Management supports Data Conversion and Quality of Service between HLA and DDS. HLA Federate and DDS Domainparticipant in L-V-C Gateway play a role of logical communication channel and relay data from HLA Federation to DDS Domain and vice versa.