SCALE Analysis of a Fluoride Salt-Cooled High-Temperature Reactor in Support of Severe Accident Analysis
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
As part of a US Nuclear Regulatory Commission–sponsored project to assess the modeling and simulation capabilities for accident progression, source term, and consequence analysis for advanced reactor technologies with SCALE and MELCOR, SCALE was used for the modeling and simulation of a fluoride salt-cooled high-temperature reactor (FHR). Based on the preconceptual design for a small modular 236 MWth FHR developed by the University of California, Berkeley (PB-FHR-Mk1), a SCALE model of the PB-FHR-Mk1 reactor core was developed. The reactor was modeled at equilibrium state with different fuel compositions in different regions of the reactor. An iterative approach was used to interpolate and mix the burnup-dependent fuel compositions obtained through the depletion calculation of a core slice model. After demonstrating the applicability of SCALE’s multigroup (MG) approach for the simulation of the PB-FHR-Mk1, the resulting equilibrium core was studied in terms of the power profile, the flux profile, temperature reactivity coefficients, and the xenon reactivity. Furthermore, the tritium production rate in the salt coolant was determined, and the dependence of the one-group cross sections on the burnup and location in the reactor core was studied. The results obtained with SCALE were post-processed to provide the MELCOR team with the core inventory and decay heat of the equilibrium core, a zone-wise power profile, temperature feedback coefficients, the tritium production rate, and the xenon worth.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE; USNRC
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- OSTI ID:
- 1854475
- Report Number(s):
- ORNL/TM-2021/2273
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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