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Group condensation method for the transport calculation of PWR with dispersed-particle fuel
A new group condensation method for pressurized water reactor (PWR) with dispersed-particle fuel is proposed. This method utilizes the neutron current method to evaluate Dancoff correction factors for different pin-cells, after which equivalent 1-D models are built by preserving the Dancoff correction factor. The Hébert model is employed to calculate the energy spectrum of fuel particles and matrix based on the equivalent model to condense the 69-fine-group cross-sections to ∼ 20 groups. This new method can accurately evaluate the double heterogeneity effect which originates from the macro heterogeneity between fuel rods and the micro heterogeneity between particles. Verification calculations for fuel assembly and JRR-3 plate-type reactor show that this group condensation method can cut the CPU time spent on transport calculation by about 60 % while ensuring that the reactivity error is less than 65 pcm and the maximum error in assembly powers is within 1.10 % with a proper broad-group structure.
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Annals of Nuclear Energy provides an international medium for the communication of original research, ideas and developments in all areas of the field of nuclear energy science and technology. Its scope embraces nuclear fuel reserves, fuel cycles and cost, materials, processing, system and component technology (fission only), design and optimization, direct conversion of nuclear energy sources, environmental control, reactor physics, heat transfer and fluid dynamics, structural analysis, fuel management, future developments, nuclear fuel and safety, nuclear aerosol, neutron physics, computer technology (both software and hardware), risk assessment, radioactive waste disposal and reactor thermal hydraulics. Papers submitted to Annals need to demonstrate a clear link to nuclear power generation/nuclear engineering. Papers which deal with pure nuclear physics, pure health physics, imaging, or attenuation and shielding properties of concretes and various geological materials are not within the scope of the journal. Also, papers that deal with policy or economics are not within the scope of the journal.