Development and testing of the VITAMIN-B7/BUGLE-B7 coupled neutron-gamma multigroup cross-section libraries
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, MS 6170, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6170 (United States)
- U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, Mail Stop O10-B3, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852 (United States)
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Regulatory Guide 1.190 states that calculational methods used to estimate reactor pressure vessel (RPV) fluence should use the latest version of the evaluated nuclear data file (ENDF). The VITAMIN-B6 fine-group library and BUGLE-96 broad-group library, which are widely used for RPV fluence calculations, were generated using ENDF/B-VI.3 data, which was the most current data when Regulatory Guide 1.190 was issued. We have developed new fine-group (VITAMIN-B7) and broad-group (BUGLE-B7) libraries based on ENDF/B-VII.0. These new libraries, which were processed using the AMPX code system, maintain the same group structures as the VITAMIN-B6 and BUGLE-96 libraries. Verification and validation of the new libraries were accomplished using diagnostic checks in AMPX, 'unit tests' for each element in VITAMIN-B7, and a diverse set of benchmark experiments including critical evaluations for fast and thermal systems, a set of experimental benchmarks that are used for SCALE regression tests, and three RPV fluence benchmarks. The benchmark evaluation results demonstrate that VITAMIN-B7 and BUGLE-B7 are appropriate for use in RPV fluence calculations and meet the calculational uncertainty criterion in Regulatory Guide 1.190. (authors)
- Research Organization:
- American Society for Testing and Materials - ASTM International, 100 Barr Harbor Drive, PO Box C700, West Conshohocken, PA, 19428-2959 (United States); European Working Group on Reactor Dosimetry - EWGRD, SCK.CEN, Mol (Belgium)
- OSTI ID:
- 22086964
- Report Number(s):
- INIS-US-13-ISRD-14-os6p-4; TRN: US13V0051045411
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: ISRD-14: 14. International Symposium on Reactor Dosimetry, Bretton Woods, NH (United States), 22-27 May 2011; Other Information: Country of input: France; 24 refs.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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