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Reactor reactivity calculations with simplified-P-3 and perturbation theories
Title: | Reactor reactivity calculations with simplified-P-3 and perturbation theories |
Authors: | Fan, Jun-Shuang Browse this author | Chiba, Go Browse this author →KAKEN DB |
Keywords: | Fast reactor | sodium void reactivity | simplified-P3 | perturbation theory |
Issue Date: | 2023 |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Journal Title: | Journal of nuclear science and technology |
Volume: | 60 |
Issue: | 12 |
Start Page: | 1500 |
End Page: | 1513 |
Publisher DOI: | 10.1080/00223131.2023.2228116 |
Abstract: | A new method to calculate reactivity of nuclear reactors through combining the simplified-P3 (SP3) and perturbation theories is proposed. The focus of this study is the sodium void reactivity calcula-tions in the fast spectrum reactors. Verification of this new method was conducted with an OECD/NEA benchmark, which contains four sodium-cooled fast reactors differing in fuel type and core size. Sodium void reactivity attribution analysis indicates that more accurate prediction of the scattering and leakage components of reactivity can be obtained with the new method compared to the diffusion-perturbation method, and that the computation time is reduced compared with the SN- perturbation method. A term having an unclear physical meaning in the SP3-perturbation method was investigated using a transformed SP3 equation set which is different from the widely used form. Results suggested the equation derivation and code implementation are successful, and the new method shows obvious advantage in component-wise reactivity calculations. |
Rights: | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of nuclear science and technology on 2023, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00223131.2023.2228116. |
Type: | article (author version) |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2115/92808 |
Appears in Collections: | 工学院・工学研究院 (Graduate School of Engineering / Faculty of Engineering) > 雑誌発表論文等 (Peer-reviewed Journal Articles, etc)
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Submitter: FAN Jun-Shuang
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