Serpent validation using giacint facility experimental data from a control rod insertion transient

Alberto Talamo; Yousry A. Gohar; Ville Valtavirta; Jaakko Leppänen; S. Sikorin; S. Mandzik; S. Polazau; T. Hryharovich

Serpent validation using giacint facility experimental data from a control rod insertion transient

Alberto Talamo, Yousry A. Gohar, Ville Valtavirta, Jaakko Leppänen, S. Sikorin, S. Mandzik, S. Polazau, T. Hryharovich

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Abstract

The number of applications of the Monte Carlo method augmented with the increase of computers speed and the growth of high performance parallel computing platforms. Monte Carlo calculations are no longer used to only obtain the kinetics parameters of reactor cores but also to perform advanced analyses such as burnup performances, power tallying in unstructured meshes for use in thermal-hydraulic or material science calculations, or moving geometry transients. This study focuses on the last application and compares the power
measured at the GIACINT facility of Belarus during a control rod insertion with the results obtained from SERPENT simulations. The SERPENT computer program allows for the simultaneous use of MPI and OPENMP parallel computing platforms. The use of 2,034 cores in parallel allowed to simulate a control rod transient in 15 hours producing results that are in good agreement with experimental data. The present analyses focus on a transient where the control rod moves with a constant speed by an engine; future studies will be dedicated to control rods dropped under gravity that experience water buoyancy forces.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	International Conference on Mathematics Computational Methods and Reactor Physics (M&C 2019)
Publisher	American Nuclear Society (ANS)
Pages	2657-2663
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Print)	978-0-89448-769-9
Publication status	Published - Aug 2019
MoE publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering - Portland, United States Duration: 25 Aug 2019 → 29 Aug 2019

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Conference	International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering
Country/Territory	United States
City	Portland
Period	25/08/19 → 29/08/19

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Transient
Rod
Control
Serpent
Giacint

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Talamo, A, Gohar, YA, Valtavirta, V , Leppänen, J, Sikorin, S, Mandzik, S, Polazau, S & Hryharovich, T 2019, Serpent validation using giacint facility experimental data from a control rod insertion transient. in International Conference on Mathematics Computational Methods and Reactor Physics (M&C 2019). American Nuclear Society (ANS), pp. 2657-2663, International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering, Portland, Oregon, United States, 25/08/19.

Serpent validation using giacint facility experimental data from a control rod insertion transient. / Talamo, Alberto; Gohar, Yousry A.; Valtavirta, Ville et al.
International Conference on Mathematics Computational Methods and Reactor Physics (M&C 2019). American Nuclear Society (ANS), 2019. p. 2657-2663.

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Serpent validation using giacint facility experimental data from a control rod insertion transient

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