Benchmark calculations for some Los Alamos oralloy critical experiments
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Abstract
In late 1976, LANL personnel performed are accurate measurement to determine the critical mass of a sphere of highly enriched uranium (oralloy) when reflected by water. This experiment has been used previously to benchmark the MCNP and KENO Monte Carlo codes. However, these benchmark calculations were performed for idealizations of the experiment and involved significant approximations. In contrast, the analysis reported herein is based on a detailed representation of the actual experiment and a set of recently published isotopic specifications for the sphere. Differences between the results from this study and those from the earlier benchmark calculations are related to specific aspects of those calculations.
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 10120434
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-93-4097; CONF-940482-2
ON: DE94006211
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36
- Resource Type:
- Technical Report
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: American Nuclear Society (ANS) topical meeting,Knoxville, TN (United States),11-15 Apr 1994; Other Information: DN: Contains article by Mosteller, R.D., La Bauver, R.J., Krohn, B.J.; Sapir, J.L., and Iverson, J.L.: Detailed reanalysis of a benchmark critical experiment: Water-reflected enriched-uranium sphere; PBD: [1993]
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 42 ENGINEERING; 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; 11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS; HIGHLY ENRICHED URANIUM; CRITICAL MASS; BENCHMARKS; SPHERES; CRITICALITY; THEORETICAL DATA; 420203; 663470; 050700; HANDLING EQUIPMENT AND PROCEDURES; FISSION; FUELS PRODUCTION AND PROPERTIES
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title = {Benchmark calculations for some Los Alamos oralloy critical experiments},
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abstractNote = {In late 1976, LANL personnel performed are accurate measurement to determine the critical mass of a sphere of highly enriched uranium (oralloy) when reflected by water. This experiment has been used previously to benchmark the MCNP and KENO Monte Carlo codes. However, these benchmark calculations were performed for idealizations of the experiment and involved significant approximations. In contrast, the analysis reported herein is based on a detailed representation of the actual experiment and a set of recently published isotopic specifications for the sphere. Differences between the results from this study and those from the earlier benchmark calculations are related to specific aspects of those calculations.},
doi = {10.2172/10120434},
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year = {1993},
month = {12}
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