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Assessment of ORIGEN Reactor Library Development for Pebble-Bed Reactors Based on the PBMR-400 Benchmark

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1807271· OSTI ID:1807271
This report provides an evaluation of present SCALE capabilities for modeling depletion of pebble-bed reactor systems, using the PBMR-400 benchmark as a test case. A specific aim of this work is to understand the system characteristics required to generate production-quality reactor data libraries for rapid depletion calculations with ORIGEN. This report includes a discussion of present SCALE capabilities for modeling doubly heterogeneous fuels, prior SCALE work modeling pebble bed–type reactors, and a detailed neutronic analysis of the PBMR-400 core for both fresh and equilibrium-composition core conditions.
Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-00OR22725
OSTI ID:
1807271
Report Number(s):
ORNL/TM-2020/1886
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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