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Hot Zero and Full Power Validation of PHISICS RELAP-5 Coupling [electronic resource].

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Washington, D.C. : United States. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy, 2013.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
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Idaho National Laboratory, United States. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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PHISICS is a reactor analysis toolkit developed in the last 3 years at the Idaho National Laboratory that has been also coupled with the thermo-hydraulic plant simulator RELAP5-3D. PHISICS is aimed to provide an optimal trade off between needed computational resources and accuracy in the range of 10~100 cores. In fact this range has been identified as the next 5 to 10 years average computational capability available to nuclear engineer designing and optimizing nuclear reactor cores. Different publication has been already presented [1] showing test of the single modules composing the PHISICS package. Lately the Idaho National Laboratory had the opportunity to access to plant data for the first cycle of a PWR including Hot Zero Power (HZP) and Hot Full Power (HFP). This data provided the opportunity to validate the transport solver, the interpolation capability for mixed macro and micro cross section and the criticality search option of the PHISICS package. In the following we will firstly recall briefly the structure of the different PHISICS modules and then we will illustrate the modeling process and some preliminary results.
Report Numbers:
E 1.99:inl/con-13-28359
inl/con-13-28359
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Published through SciTech Connect.
06/01/2013.
"inl/con-13-28359"
ANS,Atlanta, GA,06/16/2013,06/20/2013.
C. Rabiti; A. Alfonsi; F. Lodi; A. Epiney; M. Sumini.
Funding Information:
DE-AC07-05ID14517
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