ICONE Competition - ICONE28-POWER2020-16062: Nuclear Data Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis for Generalized Response With Rmc Code

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajinder Khurmi
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroki Iwamoto ◽  
Alexey Stakovskiy ◽  
Luca Fiorito ◽  
Gert Van den Eynde

This paper presents a nuclear data sensitivity and uncertainty analysis of the effective delayed neutron fraction βeff for critical and subcritical cores of the MYRRHA reactor using the continuous-energy Monte Carlo N-Particle transport code MCNP. The βeff sensitivities are calculated by the modified k-ratio method proposed by Chiba. Comparing the βeff sensitivities obtained with different scaling factors a introduced by Chiba shows that a value of a = 20 is the most suitable for the uncertainty quantification of βeff. Using the calculated βeff sensitivities and the JENDL-4.0u covariance data, the βeff uncertainties for the critical and subcritical cores are determined to be 2.2 ± 0.2% and 2.0 ± 0.2%, respectively, which are dominated by delayed neutron yield of 239Pu and 238U.


2019 ◽  
Vol 129 ◽  
pp. 308-315
Author(s):  
Abdulaziz Ahmed ◽  
H. Boukhal ◽  
T. El Bardouni ◽  
M. Makhloul ◽  
E. Chakir ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Guanlin Shi ◽  
Yishu Qiu ◽  
Kan Wang

As people pay more attention to nuclear safety analysis, sensitivity and uncertainty analysis has become a research hotspot. In our previous research, we had developed an integrated, built-in stochastic sampling module in the Reactor Monte Carlo code RMC [1]. Using this module, we can perform nuclear data uncertainty analysis. But at that time the uncertainty of fission spectrum was not considered. So, in this work, the capability of computing the uncertainty of keff induced by the uncertainty of fission spectrum, including tabular data form and formula form, is implemented in RMC code based on the stochastic sampling method. The algorithms and capability of computing keff uncertainty induced by uncertainty of fission spectrum in RMC are verified by comparison with the results calculated by the first order uncertainty quantification method [2].


2017 ◽  
Vol 146 ◽  
pp. 06026 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Dyrda ◽  
N. Soppera ◽  
I. Hill ◽  
M. Bossant ◽  
J. Gulliford

2011 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 1098-1108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takanori Sugawara ◽  
Massimo Sarotto ◽  
Alexey Stankovskiy ◽  
Gert Van den Eynde

2020 ◽  
Vol 239 ◽  
pp. 22012
Author(s):  
Qu Wu ◽  
Xingjie Peng ◽  
Guanlin Shi ◽  
Yingrui Yu ◽  
Qing Li ◽  
...  

Nuclear data sensitivity analysis and uncertainty propagation have been extensively applied to nuclear data adjustment and uncertainty quantification in the field of nuclear engineering. Sensitivity and Uncertainty (S&U) analysis is developed in the KYADJ whole-core transport code in order to meet the requirement of advanced reactor design. KYADJ aims to use two-dimension Method of Characteristic (MOC) and one-dimension discrete ordinate (SN) coupled method to solve the neutron transport equation and achieve one-step direct transport calculation of the reactor core. Developing sensitivity and uncertainty analysis module in KYADJ can minimize deviations caused by modeling approximation and enhance calculation efficiency. This work describes the application of the classic perturbation theory to the KYADJ transport solver. In order to obtain uncertainty, a technique is proposed for processing a covariance data file in 45-group energy grid instead of 44-group SCALE 6.1 covariance data which is extensively used in various codes. Numerical results for Uncertainty Analysis in Modelling (UAM) benchmarks and the SF96 benchmark are presented. The results agree well with the reference and the capability of S&U analysis in KYADJ is verified.


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