Journal
ANNALS OF NUCLEAR ENERGY
Volume 161, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.anucene.2021.108416
Keywords
LFR; SFR; MYRRHA; ESFR; Nuclear data; JEFF-3.3; ENDF/B-VIII.0; Sensitivity and uncertainty; Target accuracy assessment; Data assimilation
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- Euratom research and training programme [754501, 847552]
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The objective of this study is to analyze and improve nuclear data needed for the development of SFRs and LFRs, reducing uncertainties in reactor integral responses caused by uncertainties in nuclear data to meet target accuracies defined by researchers, industry, and regulators.
Sodium-cooled Fast Reactors and Lead-cooled Fast Reactors have been selected by the Sustainable Nuclear Energy Technology Platform as technologies that can meet future European energy needs. To achieve the requested level of safety for these reactor technologies and to minimize the increase in the costs due to additional safety measures, accurate and reliable nuclear data are necessary. The objective of this work has been to analyse and improve the nuclear data required for the development, safety assessment and licensing of SFRs and LFRs, reducing the uncertainties in the reactor integral responses due to the uncertainties in nuclear data, in order to reach the target accuracies defined by researchers, industry and regulators. To that end, target accuracy and data assimilation analyses have been performed to identify nuclear data weaknesses and to reduce the uncertainties of integral safety-related parameters due to neutron induced nuclear data. As a result of this work, nuclear data needs for advanced SFRs and LFRs have been identified, improvements of existing nuclear data libraries have been suggested, nuclear data have been adjusted and uncertainties in reactor integral parameters have been reduced, meeting target accuracies after adjustment. (C) 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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