Flux Renormalization in Constant Power Burnup Calculations
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
To more accurately represent the desired power in a constant power burnup calculation, the depletion steps of the calculation can be divided into substeps and the neutron flux renormalized on each substep to match the desired power. Here, this paper explores how such renormalization should be performed, how large a difference it makes, and whether using renormalization affects results regarding the relative performance of different neutronics–depletion coupling schemes. When used with older coupling schemes, renormalization can provide a considerable improvement in overall accuracy. With previously published higher order coupling schemes, which are more accurate to begin with, renormalization has a much smaller effect. Finally, while renormalization narrows the differences in the accuracies of different coupling schemes, their order of accuracy is not affected.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE); Finnish Research Program
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- OSTI ID:
- 1354645
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 1324002
- Journal Information:
- Annals of Nuclear Energy (Oxford), Vol. 96; ISSN 0306-4549
- Publisher:
- ElsevierCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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