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Processing resonance self-shielding effect of gadolinia based on imptoved supercell scheme

  • Xi'an Jiaotong University

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Abstract

An improved supercell scheme has been proposed in this paper to efficiently and acc urately process resonance self-shielding effect of gadolinia. Resonance effects are cla ssified into global shadowing effect and local effects involving resonance interferenc e, spatial self-shielding effects. Two categories of effects are decoupled and treated re spectively based on different 1-D cylindrical pins. Hyperfine group method is applied to obtain multi-group cross sections for each 1-D pin. Afterwards, two categories of e ffects are coupled based on a correction formula. Because of the low efficiency for C arlvik method to compute collision probabilities in hyperfine group method, online ta bulation and interpolation method is developed to accelerate gaining collision probab ilities. The proposed scheme is verified against the problems of 3×3 pins with gadoli nia rod, VERA 2O assembly with 12 gadolinia rods and VERA 2P with 24 gadolinia rods. The numerical results suggest promising consistence of multi-group cross secti ons and eigenvalues between the proposed scheme and reference solutions.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInternational Conference on Physics of Reactors
Subtitle of host publicationTransition to a Scalable Nuclear Future, PHYSOR 2020
EditorsMarat Margulis, Partrick Blaise
PublisherEDP Sciences - Web of Conferences
Pages361-368
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781713827245
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
Event2020 International Conference on Physics of Reactors: Transition to a Scalable Nuclear Future, PHYSOR 2020 - Cambridge, United Kingdom
Duration: 28 Mar 20202 Apr 2020

Publication series

NameInternational Conference on Physics of Reactors: Transition to a Scalable Nuclear Future, PHYSOR 2020
Volume2020-March

Conference

Conference2020 International Conference on Physics of Reactors: Transition to a Scalable Nuclear Future, PHYSOR 2020
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityCambridge
Period28/03/202/04/20

Keywords

  • Collision probability
  • Gadolinia
  • Improved supercell
  • Resonance effect

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