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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 | 17006 | |
Number of page(s) | 8 | |
Section | Nuclear Criticality Safety | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202124717006 | |
Published online | 22 February 2021 |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202124717006
CROSS-EVALUATION OF HIGHLY ENRICHED METAL URANIUM FAST CRITICALITY EXPERIMENTS
1 Institute of Nuclear Physics and Chemistry, China Academy of Engineering Physics, Mianyang 621900, Sichuan Province, China
2 Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
3 Key Laboratory of Advanced Reactor Engineering and Safety, Ministry of Education, Beijing 100084, China
Published online: 22 February 2021
Criticality experiments are the foundation of the criticality safety validation, the reactor parameter prediction and the nuclear data validation. Criticality experiments have been used in the field of nuclear data adjustment in the last decades. In applications like criticality safety validations and nuclear data adjustments, many criticality experiments are used together in one application. In practice, experts found that some experiments have bad influence in nuclear data adjustments, and they excluded them in these applications. But the reason why these experiments should be excluded is not clear. To give these exclusion a clear physical explanation, we have developed the cross-evaluation method, which could evaluate the random biases of the experimental results by analyzing the C − E (Calculation result - Experiment result) values of similar experiments. In this paper, we use the cross-evaluation method to assess the random biases of some highly enriched metal uranium fast criticality experiments. By the cross-evaluation method, experts could choose criticality experiments which should be used in the applications of criticality safety validations or nuclear data adjustments, and might find the reason why some experiments should be excluded in applications of nuclear data adjustments.
Key words: Cross Evaluation / Criticality Experiment / Dissimilarity Measure
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