Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8067156 | Annals of Nuclear Energy | 2018 | 18 Pages |
Abstract
A new depletion capability has been developed in the Exnihilo radiation transport code suite. This capability enables massively parallel domain-decomposed coupling between the Shift continuous-energy Monte Carlo solver and the nuclide depletion solvers in ORIGEN to perform high-performance Monte Carlo depletion calculations. This paper describes this new depletion capability and discusses its various features, including a multi-level parallel decomposition, high-order transport-depletion coupling, and energy-integrated power renormalization. Several test problems are presented to validate the new capability against other Monte Carlo depletion codes, and the parallel performance of the new capability is analyzed.
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Authors
Gregory G. Davidson, Tara M. Pandya, Seth R. Johnson, Thomas M. Evans, Aarno E. Isotalo, Cole A. Gentry, William A. Wieselquist,