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Uncertainty quanti fi cation of PWR spent fuel due to nuclear data and modeling parameters

Author(s)
Ebiwonjumi, BamideleKong, ChidongZhang, PengCherezov, AlexeyLee, Deokjung
Issued Date
2021-03
DOI
10.1016/j.net.2020.07.012
URI
https://scholarworks.unist.ac.kr/handle/201301/52816
Fulltext
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1738573320303521?via%3Dihub
Citation
NUCLEAR ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY, v.53, no.3, pp.715 - 731
Abstract
Uncertainties are calculated for pressurized water reactor (PWR) spent nuclear fuel (SNF) characteristics. The deterministic code STREAM is currently being used as an SNF analysis tool to obtain isotopic in-ventory, radioactivity, decay heat, neutron and gamma source strengths. The SNF analysis capability of STREAM was recently validated. However, the uncertainty analysis is yet to be conducted. To estimate the uncertainty due to nuclear data, STREAM is used to perturb nuclear cross section (XS) and resonance integral (RI) libraries produced by NJOY99. The perturbation of XS and RI involves the stochastic sam-pling of ENDF/B-VII.1 covariance data. To estimate the uncertainty due to modeling parameters (fuel design and irradiation history), surrogate models are built based on polynomial chaos expansion (PCE) and variance-based sensitivity indices (i.e., Sobol & rsquo; indices) are employed to perform global sensitivity analysis (GSA). The calculation results indicate that uncertainty of SNF due to modeling parameters are also very important and as a result can contribute significantly to the difference of uncertainties due to nuclear data and modeling parameters. In addition, the surrogate model offers a computationally effi-cient approach with significantly reduced computation time, to accurately evaluate uncertainties of SNF integral characteristics. (c) 2020 Korean Nuclear Society, Published by Elsevier Korea LLC. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
Publisher
KOREAN NUCLEAR SOC
ISSN
1738-5733
Keyword (Author)
STREAMSpent nuclear fuelPWRquantificationStochastic samplingSurrogate models
Keyword
GLOBAL SENSITIVITY-ANALYSISVALIDATIONQUANTIFICATIONVERIFICATIONSCALE

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