PHISICS toolkit: Multi-reactor transmutation analysis utility - MRTAU

Conference · Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2012

OSTI ID:22105729

Alfonsi, A.; Rabiti, C.; Epiney, A. S.; Wang, Y.; Cogliati, J. ^[1]

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1. Idaho National Laboratory, 2525 Fremont Avenue, Idaho Falls, ID 83415 (United States)

The principal idea of this paper is to present the new capabilities available in the PHISICS toolkit, connected with the implementation of the depletion code MRTAU, a generic depletion/decay/burn-up code developed at the Idaho National Laboratory. It is programmed in a modular structure and modern FORTRAN 95/2003. The code tracks the time evolution of the isotopic concentration of a given material accounting for nuclear reactions happening in presence of neutron flux and also due to natural decay. MRTAU has two different methods to perform the depletion calculation, in order to let the user choose the best on with respect to his needs. Both the methodologies and some significant results are reported in this paper. (authors)

• Research Organization: American Nuclear Society, Inc., 555 N. Kensington Avenue, La Grange Park, Illinois 60526 (United States)
• OSTI ID: 22105729
• Resource Relation: Conference: PHYSOR 2012: Conference on Advances in Reactor Physics - Linking Research, Industry, and Education, Knoxville, TN (United States), 15-20 Apr 2012; Other Information: Country of input: France; 14 refs.
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS
BURNUP
COMPUTER CODES
DECAY
IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY
MODULAR STRUCTURES
NEUTRON FLUX
NUCLEAR REACTIONS
PARTICLE TRACKS
REACTOR CORES
SIMULATION
TRANSMUTATION