Generation of Lumped Fission Product Cross Sections for High Burnup, Highly Enriched Uranium Fuel

摘要

The first set of reactor design calculations for the reactor design considered here was performed with a depletion methodology developed for converter reactor studies. These analyses showed that the ANS reactor would have a cycle length of 14 days when operated at a power level of 270 MW. Since both the cycle length and the discharge fuel burnup (209,000 MWD/MT) are very different from any of the reactors for which the depletion methodology was developed, a new study of the depletion process was initiated. Since the expected cycle length and fuel loading (18.1 kg sup 235 U) were known, input for an ORIGEN calculation could be prepared. For the work described here, cross section updates for the actinides and major fission products were prepared with data from an ENDF/B-V-derived library. The NITAWL-S and XSDRNPM-S codes were used to perform this update. The XSDRNPM model was a one-dimensional, buckled, cylindrical representation of the reactor. Fission yield values were derived from ENDF/B-IV data as contained in the ORIGEN Pressurized Water Reactor Library. 9 refs., 2 figs. (ERA citation 13:046009)