Validation of Serpent-SUBCHANFLOW-TRANSURANUS pin-by-pin burnup calculations using experimental data from a Pre-Konvoi PWR reactor

Manuel García; Yurii Bilodid; Joaquín Basualdo Perello; Riku Tuominen; Andre Gommlich; Jaakko Leppänen; Ville Valtavirta; Uwe Imke; Diego Ferraro; Paul Van Uffelen; Marcus Seidl; Victor Sanchez-Espinoza

doi:10.1016/j.nucengdes.2021.111173

Validation of Serpent-SUBCHANFLOW-TRANSURANUS pin-by-pin burnup calculations using experimental data from a Pre-Konvoi PWR reactor

Manuel García^*
, Yurii Bilodid
, Joaquín Basualdo Perello
, Riku Tuominen
, Andre Gommlich
, Jaakko Leppänen
, Ville Valtavirta
, Uwe Imke
, Diego Ferraro
, Paul Van Uffelen
, Marcus Seidl
, Victor Sanchez-Espinoza

^*Corresponding author for this work

BA4501 Reactor analysis

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Helmholtz Centre Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR)
E.ON Group
European Commission

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Abstract

The focus of this work is the validation of Serpent-SUBCHANFLOW-TRANSURANUS, a high-fidelity multiphysics system coupling Monte Carlo neutron transport, subchannel thermalhydraulics and fuel-performance analysis. A full-core pin-by-pin burnup calculation for the first operating cycle of a Pre-Konvoi PWR plant is presented and the results are assessed using experimental data. The critical boron concentration and a set of pin-level neutron flux profiles are compared against measurements, with very good agreement. The impact of using fuel-performance analysis is discussed comparing the results obtained with the three-code coupling with the ones using the traditional neutronic-thermalhydraulic approach. The studies presented here are part of the final stage of the EU Horizon 2020 McSAFE project, closing the development cycle of the Serpent-SUBCHANFLOW-TRANSURANUS system, from implementation to validation.

Original language	English
Article number	111173
Journal	Nuclear Engineering and Design
Volume	379
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nucengdes.2021.111173
Publication status	Published - 1 Aug 2021
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

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. This work 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

Fuel-performance analysis
High-fidelity multiphysics
Monte Carlo neutron transport
Pin level burnup
Pre-Konvoi PWR
Subchannel thermalhydraulics

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García, M., Bilodid, Y., Basualdo Perello, J., Tuominen, R., Gommlich, A., Leppänen, J., Valtavirta, V., Imke, U., Ferraro, D., Van Uffelen, P., Seidl, M., & Sanchez-Espinoza, V. (2021). Validation of Serpent-SUBCHANFLOW-TRANSURANUS pin-by-pin burnup calculations using experimental data from a Pre-Konvoi PWR reactor. Nuclear Engineering and Design, 379, Article 111173. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nucengdes.2021.111173

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