CELL-2 gadolinium isotopics benchmarking with an ENDF/B-V library
Conference
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· Transactions of the American Nuclear Society; (USA)
OSTI ID:6374412
One of the significant changes in ENDF/B-V relative to its predecessors is the increase of resonance integrals for the even-numbered isotopes of gadolinium. Gadolinium is widely used as a burnable poison in light water reactors (LWRs), and accurate predictions of its behavior are required for fuel management calculations. Furthermore, there has been a widespread suspicion among utilities with operating LWRs that their fuel management codes, most of which have cross-section libraries that predate ENDF/B-V, are underestimating the depletion rate of gadolinium (principally its strongly absorbing, odd-numbered isotopes). This paper presents the first comparison between measured gadolinium isotopics from an operating LWR and results from a code with a library based on ENDF/B-V. In particular, predictions were obtained from the CELL-2 pin-cell code, which is part of the EPRI-PRESS package and which uses a cross-section library derived directly from ENDF/B-V.
- OSTI ID:
- 6374412
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-900608--
- Conference Information:
- Journal Name: Transactions of the American Nuclear Society; (USA) Journal Volume: 61
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS
220100* -- Nuclear Reactor Technology-- Theory & Calculation
ACCURACY
BENCHMARKS
BURNABLE POISONS
BURNUP
BWR TYPE REACTORS
C CODES
CHALCOGENIDES
COMPUTER CODES
CROSS SECTIONS
ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS
EPRI
FUEL ELEMENTS
FUEL MANAGEMENT
FUEL PINS
GADOLINIUM COMPOUNDS
GADOLINIUM OXIDES
MATERIALS
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
NEUTRON ABSORBERS
NUCLEAR DATA COLLECTIONS
NUCLEAR POISONS
OCONEE-1 REACTOR
OXIDES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
POWER DISTRIBUTION
POWER REACTORS
PWR TYPE REACTORS
RARE EARTH COMPOUNDS
REACTIVITY
REACTOR COMPONENTS
REACTOR MATERIALS
REACTORS
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
SELF-SHIELDING
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US DOE
US ORGANIZATIONS
WATER COOLED REACTORS
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ACCURACY
BENCHMARKS
BURNABLE POISONS
BURNUP
BWR TYPE REACTORS
C CODES
CHALCOGENIDES
COMPUTER CODES
CROSS SECTIONS
ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS
EPRI
FUEL ELEMENTS
FUEL MANAGEMENT
FUEL PINS
GADOLINIUM COMPOUNDS
GADOLINIUM OXIDES
MATERIALS
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
NEUTRON ABSORBERS
NUCLEAR DATA COLLECTIONS
NUCLEAR POISONS
OCONEE-1 REACTOR
OXIDES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
POWER DISTRIBUTION
POWER REACTORS
PWR TYPE REACTORS
RARE EARTH COMPOUNDS
REACTIVITY
REACTOR COMPONENTS
REACTOR MATERIALS
REACTORS
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
SELF-SHIELDING
SHIELDING
US DOE
US ORGANIZATIONS
WATER COOLED REACTORS
WATER MODERATED REACTORS