Planned intervention: On Wednesday April 3rd 05:30 UTC Zenodo will be unavailable for up to 2-10 minutes to perform a storage cluster upgrade.
Published July 11, 2018 | Version v1
Conference paper Open

New sodium fast reactor neutronics benchmark

  • 1. Paul Scherrer Institute CH-5232 Villigen

Description

Fast reactor technology aimed on improved safety and sustainability as in accord to the goals of Generation IV candidates, places specific requirements on the validating the codes which are used for evaluation of the performance and behaviour of such systems. A new calculation benchmark has been proposed for the startup core of the Superphénix reactor. The paper gives an overview of the benchmark content, provides the core model definition for static neutronics calculations and presents preliminary results on core performance and comparisons with some experimental data, obtained during startup trials. The calculation results allowed concluding that the developed model can serve as an appropriate basis for benchmark activity.

Files

2018.04.Ponomarev_PHYSOR2018.pdf

Files (1.0 MB)

Name Size Download all
md5:02deafea6052b4e20154c6b65f1a142b
1.0 MB Preview Download

Additional details

Funding

ESFR-SMART – European Sodium Fast Reactor Safety Measures Assessment and Research Tools 754501
European Commission