A New Equivalence Theory Method for Treating Doubly Heterogeneous Fuel - II. Verifications [electronic resource].
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- Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy, 2015.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy - Physical Description:
- pages 41-57 : digital, PDF file
- Additional Creators:
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States. Department of Energy, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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- Summary:
- A new methodology has been developed recently to treat resonance self-shielding in systems for which the fuel compact region of a reactor lattice consists of small fuel grains dispersed in a graphite matrix. The theoretical development adopts equivalence theory in both micro- and macro-level heterogeneities to provide approximate analytical expressions for the shielded cross sections, which may be interpolated from a table of resonance integrals or Bondarenko factors using a modified background cross section as the interpolation parameter. This paper describes the first implementation of the theoretical equations in a reactor analysis code. In order to reduce discrepancies caused by use of the rational approximation for collision probabilities in the original derivation, a new formulation for a doubly heterogeneous Bell factor is developed in this paper to improve the accuracy of doubly heterogeneous expressions. This methodology is applied to a wide range of pin cell and assembly test problems with varying geometry parameters, material compositions, and temperatures, and the results are compared with continuous-energy Monte Carlo simulations to establish the accuracy and range of applicability of the new approach. It is shown that the new doubly heterogeneous self-shielding method including the Bell factor correction gives good agreement with reference Monte Carlo results.
- Report Numbers:
- E 1.99:1223635
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- Published through SciTech Connect.
03/09/2015.
Nuclear Science and Engineering 180 1 ISSN 0029-5639 AM
Choi, Sooyoung [Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)]; Kong, Chidong [Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)]; Lee, Deokjung [Ulsan National Institute of Technology]; Williams, Mark. - Funding Information:
- AC05-00OR22725
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