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EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 247, 2021
PHYSOR2020 – International Conference on Physics of Reactors: Transition to a Scalable Nuclear Future
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| Article Number | 06002 | |
| Number of page(s) | 8 | |
| Section | Advanced Modelling and Simulation | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202124706002 | |
| Published online | 22 February 2021 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202124706002
FAST REACTOR MULTIPHYSICS AND UNCERTAINTY PROPAGATION WITHIN WIMS
1 Wood Kings Point House, Queen Mother Square, Poundbury, Dorchester, DT1 3BW, UK
2 University of Cambridge Cambridge University Engineering Department, Cambridge, CB1 1PZ, UK
3 National Nuclear Laboratory Preston Laboratory, Preston, PR4 0XJ, UK
ben.lindley@woodplc.com
brendan.tollit@woodplc.com
peter.smith2@woodplc.com
alan.charles@woodplc.com
robert.mason@woodplc.com
tim.ware@woodplc.com
ray.perry@woodplc.com
ud215@cam.ac.uk
robert.wh.gregg@uknnl.com
Published online: 22 February 2021
For liquid metal-cooled fast reactors (LMFRs), improved predictive modelling is desirable to facilitate reactor licensing and operation and move towards a best estimate plus uncertainty (BEPU) approach. A key source of uncertainty in fast reactor calculations arises from the underlying nuclear data. Addressing the propagation of such uncertainties through multiphysics calculations schemes is therefore of importance, and is being addressed through international projects such as the Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor Uncertainty Analysis in Modelling (SFR-UAM) benchmark. In this paper, a methodology for propagation of nuclear data uncertainties within WIMS is presented. Uncertainties on key reactor physics parameters are calculated for selected SFR-UAM benchmark exercises, with good agreement with previous results. A methodology for coupled neutronic-thermal-hydraulic calculations within WIMS is developed, where thermal feedback is introduced to the neutronic solution through coupling with the ARTHUR subchannel code within WIMS and applied to steady-state analysis of the Horizon 2020 ESFR-SMART project reference core. Finally, integration of reactor physics and fuel performance calculations is demonstrated through linking of the WIMS reactor physics code to the TRAFIC fast reactor fuel performance code, through a Fortran-C-Python (FCP) interface. Given the 3D multiphysics calculation methodology, thermal-hydraulic and fuel performance uncertainties can ultimately be sampled alongside the nuclear data uncertainties. Together, these developments are therefore an important step towards enabling propagation of uncertainties through high fidelity, multiphysics SFR calculations and hence facilitate BEPU methodologies.
Key words: WIMS / TRAFIC / SFR-UAM / ESFR-SMART
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