Initial study on cross section generation requirements for a PBR equilibrium core
Conference
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OSTI ID:1826592
- Idaho National Laboratory
A Serpent model of the HTR-PM equilibrium core was developed for use in cross section prepa-ration studies in order to guide methods development for the Griffin reactor multiphysics applica-tion. The model includes detailed isotopics for 10 distinct pebble burnup groups in 126 core zoneswith unique fuel and moderator temperatures obtained from a coupled neutronics-thermal-fluidsequilibrium core calculation using Griffin-Pronghorn. A sensitivity study of the fuel and mod-erator temperatures for various core regions was performed with the MOOSE stochastic tools.The results show that the uncertainties are, not unexpectedly, dominated by the value of the fluidtemperature and that the power level, heat transfer coefficient and effective conduction to neigh-boring pebbles and fluid constitute, at best, second order effects. The temperature uncertaintyrange varies from 28 K to 57 K at the core entry and exit planes, respectively, but these val-ues are probably higher. We still have to quantify the significance of these uncertainties in thepreparation of cross sections, which will be postponed for future work. In addition, we verifythat the single effective pebble approach works well for the preparation of region averaged crosssections in the infinite domain approximation. Nevertheless, there are significant discrepanciesin the cross sections when compared to the multi-pebble model. This could affect the predictionof peak values and in the depletion calculation. We conclude that is highly desirable for futurestudies with Griffin to be able to handle both the ?effective? pebble approximation and the multi-pebble approach for the various pebble burnup groups. This enables Griffin users the flexibilityto perform higher-fidelity studies. Finally, we initiate the preparation of cross sections for variouscore regions from the full core Serpent reference model. We quantify the differences in 26 groupcross sections from infinite domain models. These reference cross sections will serve to validatethe double heterogeneity, self-shielding, and spectrum-correction methods in Griffin.
- Research Organization:
- Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC07-05ID14517
- OSTI ID:
- 1826592
- Report Number(s):
- INL/EXT-21-64242-Rev000
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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