Development of MCBurn and its application in
the analysis of SCWR physical characteristics

doi:10.1007/s11708-009-0031-z

Front. Energy

2009, Vol. 3

Issue (3) : 348-352 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11708-009-0031-z

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Development of MCBurn and its application in the analysis of SCWR physical characteristics

Ganglin YU , Kan WANG ,

Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China;

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Abstract The MCBurn, a coupled code system linking the Monte Carlo N-particle transport code(MCNP) and Oak Ridge isotope generation and depletion code (ORIGEN), can resolve the basic calculation problems in reactor physical design and analysis, such as criticality, power distribution, nuclide burn up, and neutron fluence. It has been verified in the pressurized water reactor (PWR) pin model, fast reactor (FR) burn up model, and boiling water reactor(BWR) assemble model with benchmarked results. In supercritical water reactor (SCWR) physical calculations, the calculation conditions such as the geometry, the neutron spectrum, and the fuel materials, etc., are more complex than those in traditional reactors, which is a great challenge to reactor physics calculation code. However, the MCBurn code is a possible solution. In this paper, several update functions of the MCBurn in new neutron cross-section lib, code interface, and neutron flux distribution were described. The application of the MCBurn in SCWR were verified on a supercritical water reactor assemble. The calculation results show that the MCBurn is accurate and adaptable in the SCWR calculation.

Keywords Monte Carlo method MCBurn SCWR neutron cross-section lib

Issue Date: 05 September 2009

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Ganglin YU,Kan WANG. Development of MCBurn and its application in the analysis of SCWR physical characteristics[J]. Front. Energy, 2009, 3(3): 348-352.

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