• High Power Laser and Particle Beams
  • Vol. 34, Issue 2, 026017 (2022)
Yuan Yuan1, Chenglong Zhang1, Guoming Liu1、*, Shuhong Du1, Xiaodong Huo1, Zhiyuan Feng2, and Xia’nan Du3
Author Affiliations
  • 1China Nuclear Power Engineering Co., Ltd, Beijing 100840, China
  • 2Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
  • 3School of Nuclear Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China
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    DOI: 10.11884/HPLPB202234.210362 Cite this Article
    Yuan Yuan, Chenglong Zhang, Guoming Liu, Shuhong Du, Xiaodong Huo, Zhiyuan Feng, Xia’nan Du. Validation of a nuclear code system for prismatic high temperature gas-cooled reactors based on the Very High Temperature Reactor Critical Assembly benchmark[J]. High Power Laser and Particle Beams, 2022, 34(2): 026017 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    The inherent safety characteristic of high temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) is universally acknowledged. On account of the double-heterogeneity of the coated fuel and the irregular core pattern of the prismatic HTGR, a code system based on Monte-Carlo homogenization and deterministic transport concept was used as a nuclear design code system for prismatic HTGR. An investigation on homogenization model and preliminary validation of this code system is conducted based on VHTRC benchmark which is a prismatic HTGR criticality assembly. The validation results indicate that group constants generation based on Monte-Carlo homogenization and appropriate energy group, then modified by super homogenization (SPH) method further, ensures high precision of homogeneous core calculation.
    $ {{\mathit{\Sigma}} _{k,g}}{{\phi} _{k,g}} = {\tilde{\mathit{\Sigma}} _{k,g}}{\tilde \phi _{k,g}} $(1)

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    $ \mu _{k,g}^{(n)} = \frac{{{\phi _{k,g}}}}{{\tilde \phi _{k,g}^{(n - 1)}}} $(2)

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    Yuan Yuan, Chenglong Zhang, Guoming Liu, Shuhong Du, Xiaodong Huo, Zhiyuan Feng, Xia’nan Du. Validation of a nuclear code system for prismatic high temperature gas-cooled reactors based on the Very High Temperature Reactor Critical Assembly benchmark[J]. High Power Laser and Particle Beams, 2022, 34(2): 026017
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