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Uncertainty Propagation of Fission Product Yields from Uranium and Plutonium in Pebble-Bed HTGR Burnup Calculation

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  • Menglei Cui

    (Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology (INET), Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Nuclear Energy Technology, Key Laboratory of Advanced Reactor Engineering and Safety of Ministry of Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China)

  • Yizhen Wang

    (Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology (INET), Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Nuclear Energy Technology, Key Laboratory of Advanced Reactor Engineering and Safety of Ministry of Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China)

  • Jiong Guo

    (Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology (INET), Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Nuclear Energy Technology, Key Laboratory of Advanced Reactor Engineering and Safety of Ministry of Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China)

  • Han Zhang

    (Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology (INET), Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Nuclear Energy Technology, Key Laboratory of Advanced Reactor Engineering and Safety of Ministry of Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China)

  • Fu Li

    (Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology (INET), Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Nuclear Energy Technology, Key Laboratory of Advanced Reactor Engineering and Safety of Ministry of Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China)

Abstract

Quantifying fission product yield uncertainty contribution to reactor burnup calculation is an important aspect of pebble-bed High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor (pebble-bed HTGR) uncertainty analysis. In this work, uncertainty propagation of fission product yield to pebble-bed HTGR burnup calculation is conducted. Uncertainty of fission product yields from four fissile isotopes, namely 233 U, 235 U, 239 Pu and 241 Pu, are considered. The stochastic sampling-based uncertainty analysis method is adopted and fission product yield covariance matrices are estimated from ENDF/B-VII.1. The covariance matrix for each fissile actinide is estimated based on the Bayesian method and fission product yields are assigned with log-normal distribution in the sampling process with the Latin Hypercube Sampling (LHS) method. Since the fission fraction from 239 Pu plays an important role in fissions of fuels with high burnup value in pebble-bed HTGR, the fission product yield uncertainty contribution from 239 Pu is highlighted in this work. The result shows that, in the burnup equilibrium state of pebble-bed HTGR, fission product yield uncertainty contributions from 235 U and 239 Pu to relative uncertainty of k eff are 0.027% and 0.026%, respectively. The overall uncertainty contribution from four fissile isotopes ( 233 U, 235 U, 239 Pu and 241 Pu) to relative uncertainty of equilibrium core k eff is 0.038%. Furthermore, fission product yield uncertainty has an important contribution to the nuclide density uncertainty of fission products. The most relative uncertainty, 10.82%, is observed in 109 Ag contributed from the fission product yield uncertainty of 239 Pu at the burnup equilibrium state. This indicates the uncertainty contribution from the fission product yield of 239 Pu cannot be neglected in pebble-bed HTGR burnup uncertainty analysis.

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  • Menglei Cui & Yizhen Wang & Jiong Guo & Han Zhang & Fu Li, 2022. "Uncertainty Propagation of Fission Product Yields from Uranium and Plutonium in Pebble-Bed HTGR Burnup Calculation," Energies, MDPI, vol. 15(22), pages 1-12, November.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:15:y:2022:i:22:p:8369-:d:967577
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    1. Yu Wang & Jianzhu Cao & Feng Xie & Fu Li, 2023. "Inventories of Short-Lived Fission Gas Nuclides in Nuclear Reactors," Energies, MDPI, vol. 16(6), pages 1-19, March.

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