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Zu, Tiejun (Zu, Tiejun.) | Wan, Chenghui (Wan, Chenghui.) | Cao, Liangzhi (Cao, Liangzhi.) | Wu, Hongchun (Wu, Hongchun.) (Scholars:吴宏春) | Shen, Wei (Shen, Wei.)

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The nuclear-data uncertainties impact the best-estimate predictions of the nuclear reactor system. In this paper, total uncertainty analyses have been performed for the TMI-1 assembly at both hot zero-power and hot full-power conditions to evaluate the impacts of nuclear-data uncertainties on the predictions of lattice calculations, based on the statistical sampling method. With an improved multigroup cross-section perturbation model, the contributions of various basic cross sections to the uncertainties of k(infinity) and two-group macroscopic cross sections are obtained. For the total uncertainty analyses, a 172-group cross-section covariance library produced from ENDF/B-VII.1 is used to generate the samples for the multigroup microscopic cross-section library, and DRAGON 5.0 is applied to perform lattice calculations for each sample. The numerical results show that the relative uncertainty of k(infinity) can reach about 4.7 parts per thousand using the v(p) covariance matrix of U-235-v and 7.1 parts per thousand using the v(t) covariance matrix of U-235-v. The relative uncertainties of two-group macroscopic cross sections vary from about 2.9 parts per thousand (for the total cross section of the thermal group) to about 11.9 parts per thousand (for the scattering cross section from the fast group to the thermal group). Moreover, through detailed analysis toward uncertainty origins, it has been observed that U-235, U-238, O-16, and H-1 are the four most significant contributors, and the uncertainties of U-235-(nu, sigma(f), sigma(gamma)), U-238-(sigma(gamma), sigma((n, inel)), sigma((n, elas)), nu), O-16-(sigma((n, elas))), and H-1-(sigma((n, elas)), sigma(gamma)) are the most significant cross-section contributors.

Keyword:

nuclear-data uncertainties statistical sampling method Total uncertainty analysis

Author Community:

  • [ 1 ] [Zu, Tiejun; Wan, Chenghui; Cao, Liangzhi; Wu, Hongchun; Shen, Wei] Xi An Jiao Tong Univ, Sch Nucl Sci & Technol, 28 West Xianning Rd, Xian 710049, Shaanxi, Peoples R China
  • [ 2 ] [Shen, Wei] Canadian Nucl Safety Commiss, Ottawa, ON K1P 5S9, Canada
  • [ 3 ] [Zu, Tiejun]Xi An Jiao Tong Univ, Sch Nucl Sci & Technol, 28 West Xianning Rd, Xian 710049, Shaanxi, Peoples R China
  • [ 4 ] [Wan, Chenghui]Xi An Jiao Tong Univ, Sch Nucl Sci & Technol, 28 West Xianning Rd, Xian 710049, Shaanxi, Peoples R China
  • [ 5 ] [Cao, Liangzhi]Xi An Jiao Tong Univ, Sch Nucl Sci & Technol, 28 West Xianning Rd, Xian 710049, Shaanxi, Peoples R China
  • [ 6 ] [Wu, Hongchun]Xi An Jiao Tong Univ, Sch Nucl Sci & Technol, 28 West Xianning Rd, Xian 710049, Shaanxi, Peoples R China
  • [ 7 ] [Shen, Wei]Xi An Jiao Tong Univ, Sch Nucl Sci & Technol, 28 West Xianning Rd, Xian 710049, Shaanxi, Peoples R China
  • [ 8 ] [Shen, Wei]Canadian Nucl Safety Commiss, Ottawa, ON K1P 5S9, Canada

Reprint Author's Address:

  • Xi An Jiao Tong Univ, Sch Nucl Sci & Technol, 28 West Xianning Rd, Xian 710049, Shaanxi, Peoples R China.

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NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

ISSN: 0029-5639

Year: 2016

Issue: 3

Volume: 183

Page: 371-386

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ESI Discipline: ENGINEERING;

ESI HC Threshold:128

JCR Journal Grade:2

CAS Journal Grade:4

Cited Count:

WoS CC Cited Count: 10

SCOPUS Cited Count: 14

ESI Highly Cited Papers on the List: 0 Unfold All

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Chinese Cited Count:

30 Days PV: 2

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