Validation of Criticality Analysis Capability of SuperMC with ICSBEP
- Key Laboratory of Neutronics and Radiation Safety, Institute of Nuclear Energy Safety Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, Anhui, 230031 (China)
SuperMC is a general purpose, intelligent and multifunctional, continuous energy Monte Carlo program for the design and safety evaluation of nuclear systems. It is designed to perform the comprehensive neutronics calculation, taking the radiation transport as the core and including the depletion, radiation source term/dose/biohazard, material activation and transmutation, etc. The latest version of SuperMC can perform the simulation of neutron, photon and coupled neutron and photon transport, and also equipped with the functions of automatic modeling and visualization. SuperMC has been verified by more than 2000 benchmark models and experiments including the handbook of International Criticality Safety Benchmark Evaluation Project (ICSBEP), the Shielding Integral Benchmark Archive Database (SINBAD), etc. The fusion reactor (ITER benchmark model, FDS Fusion Reactors), fast reactors (BN600, CLEAR-I), PWR reactors (HM, BEAVRS) and cases from the International Reactor Physics handbook Evaluation Program (IRPhEP) were employed for validating the comprehensive capability for reactor applications. In this paper, the validation of SuperMC based on the handbook of ICSBEP will be presented. ICSBEP, released by OECD/NEA, contains criticality safety benchmark specifications derived from experiments that were performed at various nuclear critical facilities around the world, which was widely used to verify neutronic codes and associated nuclear data libraries for criticality safety analysis. (authors)
- OSTI ID:
- 23042679
- Journal Information:
- Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, Vol. 115; Conference: 2016 ANS Winter Meeting and Nuclear Technology Expo, Las Vegas, NV (United States), 6-10 Nov 2016; Other Information: Country of input: France; 23 refs.; available from American Nuclear Society - ANS, 555 North Kensington Avenue, La Grange Park, IL 60526 (US); ISSN 0003-018X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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