Verification of Monte Carlo code cosRMC based on VERA core physics benchmark
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摘要: 为了验证反应堆物理软件和方法的计算能力,美国CASL (Consortium for Advanced Simulation of LWRs) 项目提出了VERA (Virtual Environment for Reactor Application) 堆芯物理基准题。该基准题以Watts Bar初始堆芯为模型,涵盖从二维单栅元到三维全堆芯的燃耗及换料的十个基准问题。针对VERA基准题模型,利用COSINE软件包中的反应堆蒙特卡罗分析程序cosRMC进行临界计算,得到了有效增殖因子、组件功率分布、控制棒微积分价值和反应性系数等结果。通过与基准题中提供的KENO结果对比,两种蒙特卡罗程序的计算结果吻合良好。这表明cosRMC程序具有从组件到堆芯的计算能力,其临界计算精度基本与KENO程序相当。Abstract: The VERA core physics benchmark progression problems proposed by Consortium for Advanced Simulation of LWRs (CASL) provide a method to demonstrate the computational capabilities for reactor physics methods and software. The benchmark is based on actual fuel from the initial core loading of Watts Bar Nuclear unit 1, and consists of 10 problems ranging from a simple 2D pin problem cell to the full cycle depletion and refueling of problem a 3D reactor core configuration. In this paper, the cosRMC code is applied to perform criticality calculation of the VERA benchmark problems and the eigenvalue, assembly power distribution, differential and integral control rod worth and reactivity coefficient are obtained. By comparing the cosRMC data with the referential KENO results, it is found that the two Monte Carlo codes agree with each other well. It indicates that the cosRMC code has the capability of 2D lattice and 3D core modeling with fairly good precision as KENO.
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Key words:
- COSINE /
- cosRMC /
- VERA /
- benchmark /
- criticality
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