Uncertainty Analyses Applied to the UAMTMI-1 Lattice Calculations Using the DRAGON (Version 4.05)‎ Code and Based on JENDL-4 and ENDFB-VII.1 Covariance Data

Joint Authors

Hernández-Solís, Augusto
Ekberg, Christian
Demazière, Christophe

Source

Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations

Issue

Vol. 2013, Issue 2013 (31 Dec. 2013), pp.1-21, 21 p.

Publisher

Hindawi Publishing Corporation

Publication Date

2013-02-10

Country of Publication

Egypt

No. of Pages

21

Main Subjects

Engineering Sciences and Information Technology

Abstract EN

The OECD/NEA Uncertainty Analysis in Modeling (UAM) expert group organized and launched the UAM benchmark.

Its main objective is to perform uncertainty analysis in light water reactor (LWR) predictions at all modeling stages.

In this paper, multigroup microscopic cross-sectional uncertainties are propagated through the DRAGON (version 4.05) lattice code in order to perform uncertainty analysis on k∞ and 2-group homogenized macroscopic cross-sections.

The chosen test case corresponds to the Three Mile Island-1 (TMI-1) lattice, which is a 15 × 15 pressurized water reactor (PWR) fuel assembly segment with poison and at full power conditions.

A statistical methodology is employed for the uncertainty assessment, where cross-sections of certain isotopes of various elements belonging to the 172-group DRAGLIB library format are considered as normal random variables.

Two libraries were created for such purposes, one based on JENDL-4 data and the other one based on the recently released ENDF/B-VII.1 data.

Therefore, multigroup uncertainties based on both nuclear data libraries needed to be computed for the different isotopic reactions by means of ERRORJ.

The uncertainty assessment performed on k∞ and macroscopic cross-sections, that is based on JENDL-4 data, was much higher than the assessment based on ENDF/B-VII.1 data.

It was found that the computed Uranium 235 fission covariance matrix based on JENDL-4 is much larger at the thermal and resonant regions than, for instance, the covariance matrix based on ENDF/B-VII.1 data.

This can be the main cause of significant discrepancies between different uncertainty assessments.

American Psychological Association (APA)

Hernández-Solís, Augusto& Demazière, Christophe& Ekberg, Christian. 2013. Uncertainty Analyses Applied to the UAMTMI-1 Lattice Calculations Using the DRAGON (Version 4.05) Code and Based on JENDL-4 and ENDFB-VII.1 Covariance Data. Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations،Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-21.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)

Hernández-Solís, Augusto…[et al.]. Uncertainty Analyses Applied to the UAMTMI-1 Lattice Calculations Using the DRAGON (Version 4.05) Code and Based on JENDL-4 and ENDFB-VII.1 Covariance Data. Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations No. 2013 (2013), pp.1-21.
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American Medical Association (AMA)

Hernández-Solís, Augusto& Demazière, Christophe& Ekberg, Christian. Uncertainty Analyses Applied to the UAMTMI-1 Lattice Calculations Using the DRAGON (Version 4.05) Code and Based on JENDL-4 and ENDFB-VII.1 Covariance Data. Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations. 2013. Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-21.
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Data Type

Journal Articles

Language

English

Notes

Includes bibliographical references

Record ID

BIM-472300