Comparison of Different Fusion Nuclear Data Libraries Using the European INTOR Blanket Design

摘要

The European Community International Tokamak Reactor (INTOR-EC) was used to investigate the influence of different cross-section libraries on the tritium breeding ratio. Nucleonic analyses were performed using the discrete-ordinates transport codes ANISN and ONEDANT, and the recently developed Swiss surface-flux code SURCU, for the Li sub 17 Pb sub 83 and Li sub 2 SiO sub 3 blanket designs. Nuclear data considered were from the DLC-37, VITAMIN-C (DLC-41) and Los Alamos-NJOY fusion libraries. In addition the reaction rates were estimated using the MACKLIB-IV response library. It is shown that very good agreement (within 0.5%) between the breeding ratios obtained using the VITAMIN-C and Los Alamos libraries could be obtained, whereas the corresponding values calculated using VITAMIN-C and MACKLIB-IV data sets collapsed into 25 neutron and 21 gamma groups differ up to 23%. It is found that this large discrepancy is due to the sup 6 Li(n, alpha ) reaction cross sections in the low energy range between 4 and 0.03 eV. Furthermore, the collapsed DLC-37 library is not adequate for fusion blankets with a soft spectrum. It is important that greater care be given to preparation of broad group cross section sets, especially in the thermal energy region for blankets containing highly moderating materials. (Atomindex citation 15:007814)