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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 | 07014 | |
| Number of page(s) | 8 | |
| Section | Transient Systems and Analysis | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202124707014 | |
| Published online | 22 February 2021 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202124707014
COUPLED MODELLING OF THE EBR-II SHRT-45R INCLUDING PHOTON HEAT DEPOSITION
NEMO Group, Dipartimento Energia, Politecnico di Torino Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy
domenico.valerio@polito.it
nicolo.abrate@polito.it
sandra.dulla@polito.it
giuseppefrancesco.nallo@polito.it
piero.ravetto@polito.it
Published online: 22 February 2021
The Fast REactor NEutronics/Thermal-hydraulICs (FRENETIC) code has been developed during the last years at Politecnico di Torino, implementing a full-core coupled neutronic/thermal-hydraulics model for steady-state and transient analysis of liquid-metal cooled fast breeder reactor (LMFBR). In the framework of the validation activities for the code, an analysis of the sodium-cooled reactor EBR-II, previously carried out in the frame of a IAEA Coordinated Research Project, is performed with FRENETIC including the most recent physics models. In particular, photon transport and heat deposition are taken into account, a feature which has been proved in previous studies to be relevant to the correct study of the EBR-II core. To this purpose, a set of nuclear data for photons has been generated by means of the Monte Carlo code Serpent-2, and it is demonstrated that the code is able to take into account the photon heat deposition in the EBR-II.
Key words: liquid-metal-cooled fast reactor / EBR-II / Multiphysics / Coupled neutronics/thermal-hydraulics / gamma heat deposition
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