INTERNAL NEUTRONICS-TEMPERATURE COUPLING IN SERPENT 2 - REACTIVITY DIFFERENCES RESULTING FROM CHOICE OF MATERIAL PROPERTY CORRELATIONS

摘要

This paper describes the unique way of simultaneously solving the power and temperature distributions of a nuclear system with the Monte Carlo neutron transport code Serpent 2. The coupled solution is achieved through the implementation of an internal temperature solver and material property correlations in the code. The program structure is reviewed concerning the temperature solver and the internal correlations as well as the internal coupling between these two and the neutron transport part. To estimate the reactivity differences resulting from correlation choices a simple pin-cell case has been calculated. It is established, that some correlation choices may result in difference in reactivity of approximately 100 pcm.