USE OF COVARIANCE MATRICES IN A CONSISTENT (MULTISCALE) DATA ASSIMILATION FOR IMPROVEMENT OF BASIC NUCLEAR PARAMETERS IN NUCLEAR REACTOR APPLICATIONS: FROM METERS TO FEMTOMETERS
A new approach is proposed, the consistent data assimilation, that allows to link the integral data experiment results to basic nuclear parameters employed by evaluators to generate ENDF/B point energy files in order to improve them. A practical example is provided where the sodium neutron propagation experiments, EURACOS and JANUS-8, are used to improve via modifications of 23Na nuclear parameters (like scattering radius, resonance parameters, Optical model parameters, Statistical Hauser-Feshbach model parameters, and Preequilibrium Exciton model parameters) the agreement of calculation versus experiments for a series of measured reaction rate detectors slopes. Future work involves comparison of results against a more traditional multigroup adjustments, and extension to other isotope of interest in the reactor community as 56Fe, actinides, and fission products.
- Research Organization:
- Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- DOE - SC
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-AC07-05ID14517
- OSTI ID:
- 983349
- Report Number(s):
- INL/CON-10-18506; TRN: US1004454
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: ND2010 International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science & Technology,Juju Island, Korea,04/26/2010,04/30/2010
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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