Early User Test: BISON for Fission Gas Release Modeling
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
As a test to develop an understanding of the capabilities and input of the nuclear fuel performance code BISON, we modeled the fission gas release of the Oconee rod 15309 as there is benchmark data available for comparison. BISON has two fission gas models available, the Forsber-Massih model and the Simple Integrated Fission Gas Release and Swelling [sifgrs] model. Due to time constraints and availability of model parameters [we did not have all of the parameters for the sifgrs model already in hand] we only tested the Forsberg-Massih model. The Oconee rod test has been used in a number of benchmark studies including the integral assessment of FRAPCON 3.4. The Oconee Rod test is a 5-cycle test bundle with an average burnup of 50GWd/MTU. The FRAPCON assessment predicted that Oconee Rod15309 Test case would release 1.25% of all fission gas produced, while experimentally only 0.8% was released at EOL. Other studies using BISON with the sifgrs model have under predicted EOL fission gas release [FGR].
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC52-06NA25396
- OSTI ID:
- 1119590
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR--14-20508
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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