Neutronics modeling of 360&#176; China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor and preliminary nuclear analysis

Qiuran Wu; Hua Du; Yu Zheng; Peng Lu; Songlin Liu

doi:10.11884/HPLPB202234.210364

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High Power Laser and Particle Beams
Vol. 34, Issue 2, 026018 (2022)

Neutronics modeling of 360° China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor and preliminary nuclear analysis

Qiuran Wu^1、2, Hua Du^1、2, Yu Zheng^1、2, Peng Lu^1、3、*, and Songlin Liu¹

Author Affiliations

¹Institute of Plasma Physics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China

²University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China

³Institute of Energy, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center （Anhui Energy Laboratory, Hefei 230026, China

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DOI: 10.11884/HPLPB202234.210364 Cite this Article

Qiuran Wu, Hua Du, Yu Zheng, Peng Lu, Songlin Liu. Neutronics modeling of 360° China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor and preliminary nuclear analysis[J]. High Power Laser and Particle Beams, 2022, 34(2): 026018 Copy Citation Text

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Fig. 1. Model of CFETR geometry

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Fig. 2. Process of modelling

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Fig. 3. Pre-processing of modelling

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Fig. 4. Platform of cosVMPT

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Fig. 5. Neutronics model of 360° CFETR

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Fig. 6. Relative difference between volume of CAD model and neutronics model

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Fig. 7. Neutron flux distribution for 3D CFETR main machine

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Fig. 8. Neutron/photon flux and relative error distribution

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Fig. 9. Neutron flux distribution for 112.5° model with 2 sets of NBI systems

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component	position (x, y, z)/cm	neutron flux/(cm⁻²·s⁻¹)	neutron flux relative error/%	photon flux/(cm⁻²·s⁻¹)	photon flux relative error/%
blanket	(980.0, −14.5, 15.0)	3.19E+14	0.15	1.19E+14	0.28
divertor	(580.0, −14.5, −465.0)	1.75E+14	0.16	7.80E+13	0.28
vacuum vessel	(1 220.0, −14.5, 15.0)	3.65E+12	0.54	1.91E+12	0.63
center solenoid coil	(140.0, −14.5, 15.0)	9.58E+03	9.28	1.19E+04	4.01
poloidal field coil	(1 500.0, −14.5, 295.0)	4.28E+08	6.67	1.85E+08	9.10
toroidal field coil	(1 340.0, 219.5, 15.0)	3.92E+08	2.75	1.16E+08	3.03
cryostat	(1 860.0, −14.5, 15.0)	1.95E+08	1.35	5.30E+07	3.44
bio-shielding (in)	(2 100.0, −14.5, 15.0)	3.11E+05	6.66	3.55E+05	7.46
bio-shielding (out)	(5 217.5, −14.5, 15.0)	1.28E+05	7.43	2.64E+05	3.26

Table 1. Neutron/photon flux of main components and their relative error

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