RESULTS OF TRIPOLI-4® VERSION 10 ON THE TRIPOLI® CRITICALITY VALIDATION SUITE, THERMAL SPECTRA

摘要

This paper presents the results of the latest version of TRIPOLI-4® on its criticality validation suite, thermal spectra part. The criticality validation suite is made of 148 selected ICSBEP [3] benchmarks with various enrichments, fissile materials and spectra. The ICSBEP benchmarks computational models are prepared by the TRIPOLI-4® V&V team and are run in the same conditions for each benchmark: initial source, number of neutrons per cycle, number of inactive and active cycles, k_(eff)estimator and nuclear data. Comparisons are made with the experimental k_(eff).