Development and test of a novel neutronic verification scheme for Molten Salt Reactors
Paper in proceeding, 2021

This paper presents the extension of a verification method of transient neutron transport solvers earlier developed to the case of Molten Salt Reactor (MSR). This method is based on the extraction of the point-kinetic response of a nuclear reactor excited by a mono-chromatic perturbation and on its subsequent comparison with a closed analytical form. Whereas a closed analytical form exists for systems with fixed fuel, no closed analytical form exists in the case of MSR, as highlighted by many authors. A workaround is nevertheless proposed in this work, thus giving the possibility to use a similar verification method to the case of MSR.

verification and validation

neutron noise

Molten Salt Reactor

point-kinetics

modelling and simulation

nuclear reactor modelling

Author

Christophe Demaziere

Chalmers, Physics, Subatomic, High Energy and Plasma Physics

Antonios Mylonakis

Chalmers, Physics, Subatomic, High Energy and Plasma Physics

Paolo Vinai

Chalmers, Physics, Subatomic, High Energy and Plasma Physics

Transactions of the American Nuclear Society

0003-018X (ISSN)

Vol. 124 1 504-507

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Energy

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DOI

10.13182/T124-35041

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