SERPENT2-SUBCHANFLOW-TRANSURANUS pin-by-pin depletion calculations for a PWR fuel assembly

Manuel García; Riku Tuominen; Andre Gommlich; Diego Ferraro; Ville Valtavirta; Uwe Imke; Paul van Uffelen; Luigi Mercatali; Victor Sanchez-Espinoza; Jaakko Leppänen; Sören Kliem

doi:10.1051/epjconf/202124706016

SERPENT2-SUBCHANFLOW-TRANSURANUS pin-by-pin depletion calculations for a PWR fuel assembly

Manuel García
, Riku Tuominen
, Andre Gommlich
, Diego Ferraro
, Ville Valtavirta
, Uwe Imke
, Paul van Uffelen
, Luigi Mercatali
, Victor Sanchez-Espinoza
, Jaakko Leppänen
, Sören Kliem

BA4501 Reactor analysis

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Abstract

This work presents the results for a coupled neutronic-thermalhydraulic-thermomechanic pin-level depletion calculation of a PWR fuel assembly using Serpent2-SUBCHANFLOWTRANSURANUS. This tool is based on a semi-implicit depletion scheme with pin-by-pin feedback, mesh-based field exchange and an object-oriented software design. The impact of including fuel-performance capabilities is analyzed, with focus on high-burnup effects. The treatment of the Doppler feedback to the neutronics is examined as well, in particular the use of radial fuel-temperature profiles or radially averaged values.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1033-1040
Number of pages	8
Journal	EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume	247
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202124706016
Publication status	Published - 2020
MoE publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	International Conference on Physics of Reactors, PHYSOR 2020: Transition to a Scalable Nuclear Future - Cambridge, United Kingdom Duration: 28 Mar 2020 → 2 Apr 2020

Funding

This work was done within the McSAFE project which is receiving funding from the Euratom research and training programme 2014-2018 under grant agreement No 755097, and was performed on the computational resource ForHLR II funded by the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-W?rttemberg and DFG (?Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft?). This work was done within the McSAFE project which is receiving funding from the Euratom research and training programme 2014-2018 under grant agreement No 755097, and was performed on the computational resource ForHLR II funded by the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg and DFG (”Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft”).

Keywords

Multiphysics
PWR
Serpent2
SUBCHANFLOW
TRANSURANUS

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