THE FEATURES OF NEUTRONIC CALCULATIONS FOR FAST REACTORS WITH HYBRID CORES ON THE BASIS OF BFS-62-3A CRITICAL ASSEMBLY EXPERIMENTS

摘要

The different (U-Pu) fuel compositions are considered for next generation of sodium fast breeder reactors. The considerable discrepancies in axial and radial neutron spectra for hybrid reactor systems compared to the cores with UO_2 fuel cause increasing uncertainty of generating the group nuclear constants in those reactor systems. The calculation results of BFS-62-3A critical assembly which is considered as full-scale model of BN-600 hybrid core with steel reflector specify quite different spectra in local areas. For those systems the MCNP 5 calculations demonstrate significant sensitivity of effective multiplication factor K_(eff) and spectral indices to nuclear data libraries. For ~(235)U, U, ~(239)Pu the results of calculated radial fission rate distributions against the reconstructed ones are analyzed. Comparative analysis of spectral indices, neutron spectra and radial fission rate distributions are performed using the different versions of ENDF/B, JENDL-3.3, JENDL-4, JEFF-3.1.1 libraries and BROND-3 for Fe, Cr isotopes. For analyzing the fission rate sensitivity to the plutonium presence in the fuel ~(239)Pu is substituted for ~(235)U (enrichment 90%) in the FA areas containing the plutonium. For ~(235)U, ~(238)U, ~(239)Pu radial fission rate distributions the explanation of pick values discrepancies is based on the group fission constants analyses and possible underestimation of some features at the experimental data recovery method (Westcott factors, temperature dependence).