| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 253, 2021
ANIMMA 2021 – Advancements in Nuclear Instrumentation Measurement Methods and their Applications
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| Article Number | 07011 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | Nuclear Fuel Cycle, Safeguards and Homeland Security | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202125307011 | |
| Published online | 19 November 2021 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202125307011
A comparison of bounding approach with isotopic correction factors and Monte Carlo sampling in burnup credit method
Škoda JS a.s., Czech Republic
Published online: 19 November 2021
One of the methodologies used in criticality safety analysis is burnup credit method, which allows considering fuel burnup in models with spent fuel. This removes excessive conservatism from the analysis, but it also brings new uncertainties originating from computational prediction of spent fuel composition. The burnup credit method offer several possibilities of how to deal with this problem, e.g. using bounding approach with correction factors on nuclide concentrations, which is simple, but still very conservative approach. Another option is Monte Carlo sampling, which aims at receiving the most realistic result as possible, but is very computationally demanding. In this work, we have analyzed correction factors for selected nuclides and compared the results of both methods on model of spent fuel storage pool. The results show how much conservative the bounding approach is – in this case, the multiplication factor was higher by almost 0.03 than in Monte Carlo sampling, exceeding the standard deviation by more than 5.4 times.
Key words: Bounding approach / Monte Carlo sampling / Burnup credit / SCALE
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2021
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