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Validation Efforts for the Neutronics of a Plutonium–erbium–zirconium Oxide Inert Matrix Light Water Reactor Fuel by J.M Paratte; R Chawla; R Früh; O.P Joneja; S Pelloni; C Pralong is a Materials Science article available to read on EtoBox.

What is Validation Efforts for the Neutronics of a Plutonium–erbium–zirconium Oxide Inert Matrix Light Water Reactor Fuel about?

Light water reactor (LWR) neutronics codes and cross-section libraries need further quali®cation when used for the calculation of inert matrix fuel (IMF) cells. Three types of validation eorts have been undertaken for the PuO 2 ±Er 2 O 3 ± ZrO 2 IMF concept under development at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI). Firstly, the PSI calculational scheme, based on the BOXER code and its data library, has been applied to the analysis of a range of LWR experiments with PuO 2 ± UO 2 fuel, conducted earlier at PSI's PROTEUS facility. The generally good agreement obtained between calculated and measured parameters gives con®dence in the ability of the employed calculational scheme to correctly modelize Pucontaining fuel cells. Secondly, reactivity eects of various burnable poisons in a ZrO 2 matrix were measured in the CROCUS reactor of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne. Modelling these experiments with BOXER resulted in satisfactory prediction of measured reactivity ratios (relative to a soluble-boron standard) for most of the experimental rods employed. This was particularly the case for experiments with erbium, as well as with mixtures of erbium and europium (the latte

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Author

J.M Paratte; R Chawla; R Früh; O.P Joneja; S Pelloni; C Pralong

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0022-3115)

Published

1999

Language

EN

Field

Materials Science (Physical Sciences)