VALIDATION OF PWR-FUEL CODE FOR STATIC PARAMETERS IN THE LWR CORE BENCHMARK
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https://doi.org/10.17146/tdm.2018.20.3.4650Keywords:
Validation, PWR-FUEL code, static parameterAbstract
The PWR-FUEL code is a multi dimensional, multi group diffusion code with nodal and finite difference methods. The code will be used to calculate the fuel management of PWR reactor core. The result depends on the accuracy of the codes in producing the core effective multiplication factor and power density distribution. The objective of this research is to validate the PWR-FUEL code for those cases. The validation are carried out by benchmarking cores of IAEA-2D, KOERBERG-2D and BIBLIS-2D. The all three cases have different characteristics, thus it will result in a good accuracy benchmarking. The calculation results of effective multiplication factor have a maximum difference of 0.014 %, which is greater than the reference values. For the power peaking factor, the maximum deviation is 1.75 % as compared to the reference values. Those results show that the accuracy of PWR-FUEL in calculating the static parameter of PWR reactor benchmarks are very satisfactory.
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