Experimental validation of the Cristal V2.0 French criticality calculation package - 14587
- Commissariat a l'energie Atomique et aux energies Alternatives, CEA, DEN, DM2S, Serma, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette (France)
- Commisariat a l'energie Atomique et aux energies Alternatives, CEA, DEN, DER, SPRC, F-13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance (France)
- Institut de Radioprotection et de Surete Nucleaire - IRSN, Fontenay-aux-Roses, 92262 (France)
A new version of the CRISTAL criticality calculation package, named CRISTAL V2.0 [1], has been developed by IRSN and CEA, in collaboration with AREVA and EDF. Four calculation routes are now available, using nuclear data issued from the JEFF-3.1.1 evaluation: two multigroup routes based on 281 groups cross-sections (APOLLO2 - MORET 5 or APOLLO2-Sn calculations), a pointwise Monte Carlo route (TRIPOLI-4{sup R}) and a criticality standard calculation route. The CRISTAL V2.0 package, which will be delivered soon to OECD/NEA data bank, benefits from a broad validation database covering almost all areas of criticality-safety applications, from fuel fabrication to reprocessing, including transportation. 3,127 critical experiments, corresponding to 342 series, either issued from the OECD/ICSBEP Handbook or performed in French facilities (confidential data) were selected for the CRISTAL V2.0 validation database. Currently, more than 2,300 experiments are already part of the validation database. This validation work highlights an overall consistency to experimental data and inter-comparisons between the different calculation routes mainly show good agreements on a large set of common experiments. (authors)
- Research Organization:
- American Nuclear Society - ANS, 555 North Kensington Avenue, La Grange Park, IL 60526 (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 23100947
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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