IMPACT OF IRRADIATION HISTORY ON INVENTORY PREDICTION DATA FOR PWR FUEL

Georges Kyriazidis (1) , Pierre Marimbeau , Jean Claude Lefebvre

1 CEA Cadarache

Procedures developed to allow generation of radio nuclide inventory data depend on fluxes and cross sections calculated by assembly spectrum codes. Their accuracy depends on the assembly spectrum code capacity to generate correct prediction data; otherwise corrections have to be made to eliminate the residual calculation/experiment discrepancies. In this work we present the effect of taking into account the temperature and boron history on predicted isotopic compositions (uranium and plutonium) of a 40 GWd/t UO 2 fuel.

Keywords: fuel; boron; temperature

Domains: Physics [physics]

Georges Kyriazidis, Pierre Marimbeau, Jean Claude Lefebvre. IMPACT OF IRRADIATION HISTORY ON INVENTORY PREDICTION DATA FOR PWR FUEL. PHYSOR 1994 - Reactor Physics Faces 21st Century, AMERICAN NUCLEAR SOCIETY, Apr 1994, Knoxville - Tennessee, United States. ⟨cea-01122087⟩