LANL Critical Benchmark Comparison Study and Subsequent Revision
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Institut de radioprotection et de sûreté nucléaire, Fontenay-aux-Roses (France)
As part of an international collaboration within the DOE Nuclear Criticality Safety Program (NCSP), LANL is involved in a comparison study to quantify differences in k-effective results from neutron transport simulations of critical benchmark experiments. The DOE NCSP Mission and Vision details the activity in which the French Institut De Radioprotection et De Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN) leads the study with LANL and in conjunction with ORNL and LLNL to compare results of various neutron transport codes and nuclear data libraries to compute k-effective for ICSBEP benchmarks held in common by the entities. This report documents results obtained through partial completion of the overall effort with a focus on the changes made to LANL benchmarks modeled with MCNP6 using ENDF/B-VII.1 nuclear data that appeared to have discrepant results when compared with results of other codes. The feedback received through participation in the comparison collaboration has prompted an effort to review particular input files for benchmarks and revise when necessary. This report documents the results of review and revision of specific benchmarks highlighted as possibly discrepant in the comparison study. In addition, this effort prompted a new collaboration between LANL XCP and NCS Divisions in the development of a shared review/revision procedure and use of a new benchmark repository.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Nuclear Criticality Safety Program (NCSP)
- DOE Contract Number:
- 89233218CNA000001
- OSTI ID:
- 1617364
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-20-23376
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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