ATF-2 Sensitivity M&C 2023 (Slides)
- Idaho National Laboratory
- Texas A&M
Irradiation experiments in the Idaho National Laboratory's Advanced Test Reactor are typically assumed to have little effect on one another. This assumption does not hold true for certain experiments in close proximity. To evaluate the impacts on safety and programmatic parameters of experiments in the center flux trap, the contents of the adjacent H and inner-A positions are modeled with a range of possible irradiation targets. First, neutron flux maps with experiments in those positions are compared to those of a water-filled configuration. Then, several safety and programmatic parameters for a generic accident-tolerant fuel test train are calculated. It is shown that these parameters can exhibit considerable sensitivity to the contents of the H and A experiment positions.
- Research Organization:
- Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- 58
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-AC07-05ID14517
- OSTI ID:
- 1996414
- Report Number(s):
- INL/CON-23-74124-Rev000
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering 2023, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, 08/13/2023 - 08/17/2023
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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