西安脉冲堆中子价值计算与分析

Calculation of Neutron Importance in Xi’an Pulsed Reactor

  • 摘要: 中子价值是反应堆中的重要参数,其物理意义是中子对反应堆功率的贡献大小。首先采用栅元程序WIMS,计算了西安脉冲堆各栅元的6群群常数,然后采用堆芯扩散程序CITATION,计算西安脉冲堆的中子价值分布。采用连续能量点的蒙特卡罗程序MCNP,对CITATION扩散计算的正确性进行了验证。分析了西安脉冲堆的中子价值随空间和能量的变化,以及中子价值对动态参数缓发中子有效份额和中子代时间的影响。结果表明:在燃料栅元中,中子价值随能量的增加而降低,在控制棒和水栅元中,中子价值随能量的增加而增加。缓发中子有效份额大于缓发中子份额的主要原因是燃料栅元中缓发中子的中子价值较瞬发中子的大。中子代时间小于瞬发中子寿命的主要原因是燃料栅元中的中子价值较其他栅元中的大。

     

    Abstract: The neutron importance, which is an important parameter of nuclear reactor, means the contribution of the neutron to the reactor power. The 6-group homogenized cross-section of Xi’an Pulsed Reactor was obtained with the cell calculation code WIMS. And the neutron importance distribution was achieved with the diffusion calculation code CITATION. The diffusion calculation was validated with continuous-energy Monte Carlo code MCNP. The space and energy distribution of neutron importance was analyzed. The effect of the neutron importance distribution on the kinetics parameters, namely, the effective delayed neutron fraction and the neutron generation time, were studied. The results show that the neutron importance decreases with the increasing of the neutron energy in the fuel cell. However, in the control rod cell and the central water cell, the neutron importance gets larger with the decreasing of the neutron energy. The reason that the effective delayed neutron fraction is larger than delayed neutron fraction is the importance of the delayed fission neutrons is greater than that of the prompt fission neutrons. And the reason that the neutron generation time is smaller than the prompt neutron lifetime is the neutron importance in the fuel cell is larger than that in the other cells.

     

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