气冷快堆核数据敏感性与不确定性研究

Research on Sensitivity and Uncertainty of Nuclear Data for Gas-cooled Fast Reactor

  • 摘要: 核数据作为反应堆物理计算的输入参数,其敏感性和不确定性对堆芯物理计算尤为重要。本文以ALLEGRO、GFR2400气冷快堆为研究对象,使用RMC和MCNP程序分别计算了keff对ALLEGRO中Pu、U、Re、W等关键核素的敏感性,将不同程序的敏感性计算结果进行比较,发现除弹性散射外,其余反应截面的敏感性符合很好,验证了RMC在气冷快堆中的敏感性计算能力。使用RMC计算了GFR2400中Pu、U、Re、W等关键核素的敏感性和不确定性,并与公开文献的结果进行比较。结果表明,由于模型的差异,会出现部分核素-反应道的敏感性计算结果偏差较大,但不确定性计算结果符合较好,验证了RMC在气冷快堆中的不确定性计算能力。本文结果验证了RMC在计算核数据敏感性和不确定性上的应用,可为气冷快堆设计与核数据研究提供支持。

     

    Abstract: Nuclear data as a fundamental input for reactor physics calculations, its sensitivities and uncertainties significantly impact core simulation accuracy. At present, some research results have been achieved in the research on the sensitivities and uncertainties of high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTR) in China, these research results mainly illustrated the need to pay special attention to the uncertainty caused by the elastic scattering cross-section of graphite in HTR. Gas-cooled Fast Reactor (GFR) usually use He and CO2 as coolants, and almost no moderators, this is different from HTR. Furthermore, there has been no systematic work on GFR in China. It is necessary to conduct sensitivity and uncertainty research on GFR. In this paper, GFR such as ALLEGRO and GFR2400 were used as research objects. The sensitivity of keff to key nuclides such as Pu, U, Re, and W in ALLEGRO was calculated using the RMC code and the MCNP code respectively. Comparing the sensitivity calculation results of different programs, it is found that the relative deviations of the sensitivities of most nuclide-reactions calculated by RMC and MCNP are very small, but for the sensitivity of elastic scattering of some nuclides, the calculated results of the two codes are significantly different. Therefore, for nuclides with high sensitivity to elastic scattering cross-section, such as 238U (the relative deviation is −184.73%), 239Pu (the relative deviation is −20.60%) and 240Pu (the relative deviation is −50.32%), the sensitivities were re-performed using the direct perturbation method. The sensitivity calculations using the direct perturbation method show that the calculation results of MCNP are more accurate. The calculation method of RMC to calculate the sensitivity of elastic scattering cross-sections in GFR may need to be further improved, which verifies the sensitivity calculation ability of RMC in GFR. The RMC was used to calculate the sensitivities and uncertainties of key nuclides such as Pu, U, Re, and W in GFR2400, and compared with the results in the public literature. It is found that due to the differences in models, the sensitivity calculation results of some nuclides-reaction have significant deviations, but the uncertainty calculation results are in good agreement, which verifies the uncertainty calculation ability of the RMC in GFR. The results of this paper verify the application of the RMC in calculating nuclear data sensitivity and uncertainty, and can provide support for GFR design and nuclear data research.

     

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