| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6762463 | Nuclear Engineering and Design | 2014 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
The gas-cooled fast reactor, which is one of the six GEN IV reactor concepts, is characterized by high operational temperatures and a hard neutron spectrum. The utilization of commonly used spectral codes, developed mainly for LWR reactors operated in the thermal/epithermal neutron spectrum, may be connected with systematic deviations since the main development effort of these codes has been focused on the thermal part of the neutron spectrum. To be able to carry out proper calculations for fast systems the used codes have to account for neutron resonances including the self-shielding effect. The presented study aims at verifying the spectral HELIOS, MCNPX and SCALE codes on the basis of depletion calculations of 2D MOX and ceramic fuel assemblies of the ALLEGRO gas-cooled fast reactor demonstrator in infinite lattice.
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Authors
Å tefan Äerba, Branislav Vrban, Jakub Lüley, Petr DaÅÃlek, Radoslav Zajac, VladimÃr NeÄas, Ján HaÅ¡Äik,