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Transmutation Feature Within MCNPX Gregg W. McKinney (LANL, D-5) Holly R. Trellue (LANL, D-5)

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1 Transmutation Feature Within MCNPX Gregg W. McKinney (LANL, D-5) Holly R. Trellue (LANL, D-5)

2 Outline Existing Burnup Capabilities MCNPX/CINDER90 Interface Results Future Work

3 Existing Burnup Capabilities Numerous “scripts” written to link MC codes to depletion codes –MOCUP (MCNP/ORIGEN2, INEL, 1995) –MC-REBUS (MCNP/REBUS, ANL, 1998) –OCTOPUS (MCNP/FISPACT, ECN NRG Netherlands, 1998) –MCB (MCNP/Custom, RIT Sweden, 1999) –MonteBurns 2 (MCNP/ORIGEN2 or CINDER90, LANL, 1999) –MCWO (MCNP/ORIGEN2, INEEL, 2000) –BURNCAL (MCNP/Custom, SNL, 2002) –MCODE (MCNP/ORIGEN2, MIT, 2002) Disadvantages of a “link” approach –Several input files to create and understand –Numerous input/output files to manage –Approximations to convert data from one format/code to another

4 MCNPX/CINDER90 Interface MCNPX provides to CINDER90 –63-group fluxes in each material to be burned –Isotopic atom densities and material volumes –Absorption and fission reaction rates for each nuclide –Average k eff and fission, and fission Q –Power level and burn time CINDER90 provides to MCNPX –Updated isotopic atom densities –Burnup quantities User interface (BURN card) –BURN card without any entries defaults to 1MW power for 1 day –User can specify burn materials, power level, burn times, etc. –Histories run per burn time are taken from NPS or KCODE card

5 BURN Card Format BURN POWER=P TIME=T 1,T 2,… PFRAC=F 1,F 2,… MAT=M 1,M 2,... OMIT=L 1,N 1,I 11,I 12,…L 2,N 2,I 21,I 22,… AFMIN=A BOPT=B 1,B 2,B 3 Entries P = power level (MW). Default is 1.0. T i = duration of the i th burn step (days). Default is one time step of one day. F i = power fraction of each time step (0-1). Zero gives decay only. Default is 1.0. M j = list of burn material numbers. Default is to burn all materials. L k = k th material for which to omit nuclides. If L 1 =-1, list applies to all materials. N k = number of nuclides listed for the k th material. I k1,I k2,… = omitted nuclide list for the k th material. Format is zzaaa. A = threshold atom fraction. Default is 1.0e-10. B 1 = fission Q multiplier. Default is 1.0.

6 BURN Card Example BURN POWER=2.0 TIME=15,30,30 MAT=3,4 OMIT=3,3,8017,92234,94239,4,1,92234 Specifies a power level of 2 MW for a duration of 75 days (steps of 15, 30, and 30 days). Materials 3 and 4 are included in the burn with isotopes 17 O, 234 U, and 239 Pu excluded from material 3 and isotope 234 U excluded from material 4. Nuclides with an atom fraction less than 1e-10 are also excluded. To force the inclusion of a nuclide simply list that nuclide on the appropriate material card with an insignificant atom fraction.

7 Results 7-can HEU test problem Comparison to MonteBurns Actinide and FP inventories Can burnup

8 7-Can HEU Test Problem Air HEU Aluminum ~5% Enriched

9 cylinders containing critical fluid in macrobody hex lattice 1 1 -8.4 -1 u=1 imp:n=1 2 0 -2 u=1 imp:n=1 3 2 -2.7 -3 1 2 u=1 imp:n=1 4 3 -.001 3 u=1 imp:n=1 10 3 -.001 -6 lat=2 u=2 imp:n=1 fill=-2:2 -2:2 0:0 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 11 0 -8 imp:n=1 fill=2 50 0 8 imp:n=0 1 rcc 0 0 0 0 12 0 5 2 rcc 0 12 0 0 8 0 5 3 rcc 0 -1 0 0 22 0 6 6 rhp 0 -1 0 0 22 0 9 0 0 8 rcc 0 -1 0 0 22 0 30 m1 1001 5.7058e-2 8016 3.2929e-2 92238 2.0909e-3 92235 1.0889e-4 m2 13027 1 m3 7014.8 8016.2 vol 6597.344573 burn time=15.22,30.44,30.44,30.44,30.44,30.44,30.44,30.44,30.44, 30.44,30.44,30.44 mat=1 bopt=0.99 omit=-1,9,8017,92234,92239,93235,93236,93238,93239,94236,94237 kcode 5000 1 25 225 ksrc 0 6 0 18 6 0 -18 6 0 9 6 15 -9 6 15 9 6 -15 -9 6 -15

10 Comparison to MonteBurns MCNPX MonteBurns

11 Actinide Inventories 235 U 236 U 239 Pu

12 Fission Product Inventories

13 Can Burnup Central Can Outer Can

14 Future Work Provide burnup tables in the MCNPX output file –Densities, atom fractions, and burnup for each time step –Actinide and FP inventories for each time step Allow transmutation with fixed-source problems –Coupling with a time-dependent source Benchmark with other codes & measurements –Understand differences with MonteBurns –Benchmark with other codes (MCB, MCWO, MCODE, etc.) –Benchmark with measurements (ATW, MIT, IAEA) Release in a future version of MCNPX (2.6.X) –2.5.E released Feb. 2004 –2.5.0 expected June 2004

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