• High Power Laser and Particle Beams
  • Vol. 34, Issue 5, 056005 (2022)
Liang Zhang, Sheng Sun, Shouhua Sun*, and Wenhua Yang
Author Affiliations
  • Reactor Operation and Application Sub-Institute, Nuclear Power Institute of China, Chengdu 610213, China
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    DOI: 10.11884/HPLPB202234.220001 Cite this Article
    Liang Zhang, Sheng Sun, Shouhua Sun, Wenhua Yang. Preliminary application of neutronics calculation in LFR reactor with metallic fuel using dragon code[J]. High Power Laser and Particle Beams, 2022, 34(5): 056005 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Lead-bismuth/lead cooled fast reactor (LFR) is one of the fourth-generation advanced nuclear energy systems with good application prospects. Aiming at the application of two metallic fuels (UZr, UPuZr) with annular slug in an LFR fuel assembly and a typical LFR core, the Dragon/Donjon code was used to perform neutronics calculations. The results of 172-group and 295-group neutron databases based on the ENDF/B 8.0 library and the transport method (SP3) and the diffusion method (MCFD) were obtained and compared with the results using RMC code. The keff deviations using SP3 algorithm for UZr fuel are less than 550×10-5, and for UPuZr fuel, the keff deviations obtained by MCFD algorithm are less than -700×10-5. The maximum deviation of control rod worth is 7.6%, and the results using 172-grouplib and 295-grouplib are basically the same. By using the SP3 algorithm, the fuel assembly power deviations are less than ±6.0%, and the deviation with the SP3 algorithm is less than that with MCFD algorithm. The results preliminarily prove the feasibility of the Dragon/Donjon code for reactor physics analysis of LFR with metallic fuel.
    Liang Zhang, Sheng Sun, Shouhua Sun, Wenhua Yang. Preliminary application of neutronics calculation in LFR reactor with metallic fuel using dragon code[J]. High Power Laser and Particle Beams, 2022, 34(5): 056005
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