Djahid Lababsa , Hakim Mazrou , Mohamed Belgaid , Tahar Zidi , Mohammed Azzoune , Azzeddine Ameur , Ahmed Guesmia , Leila Zamoun , Mohamed Boufenar
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Software-Based automation of burnup calculations for the NUR research reactor using SCALE/TRITON T6-DEPL sequence
This work represents a key milestone in the development of a Monte Carlo Burnup Calculation System (MCBCS) specially tailored for the NUR research reactor. Developed using Python and leveraging the 3D Monte Carlo TRITON depletion sequence (T6-DEPL) within the SCALE code, MCBCS accurately simulates the reactor’s operating history. The paper provides an overview of MCBCS, focusing on its components, verification, and validation.
The verification and validation process cover both fresh and burnt core conditions. For the fresh core, comparisons of excess reactivity, control rods worth, and critical configurations against experimental data and MCNP5 calculations showed good agreement. Burnup calculations were validated against measured core excess reactivity, reactivity worths of fuel assemblies, and neutron flux distribution. The system slightly underpredicted core excess reactivity by −2.95%, and discrepancies in reactivity worths remained within the 7% uncertainty range. Neutron flux distribution showed good consistency with minor location-specific deviations.
Overall, these findings confirm MCBCS as a reliable and accurate tool for burnup calculations of the NUR research reactor.
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Annals of Nuclear Energy provides an international medium for the communication of original research, ideas and developments in all areas of the field of nuclear energy science and technology. Its scope embraces nuclear fuel reserves, fuel cycles and cost, materials, processing, system and component technology (fission only), design and optimization, direct conversion of nuclear energy sources, environmental control, reactor physics, heat transfer and fluid dynamics, structural analysis, fuel management, future developments, nuclear fuel and safety, nuclear aerosol, neutron physics, computer technology (both software and hardware), risk assessment, radioactive waste disposal and reactor thermal hydraulics. Papers submitted to Annals need to demonstrate a clear link to nuclear power generation/nuclear engineering. Papers which deal with pure nuclear physics, pure health physics, imaging, or attenuation and shielding properties of concretes and various geological materials are not within the scope of the journal. Also, papers that deal with policy or economics are not within the scope of the journal.
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