Implementation of a CRAM solver in MENDEL Depletion Code System

Sébastien Lahaye (1, 2) , Aimé Tsilanizara (1, 2) , Pierre Bellier (1, 2) , Thomas Bittar (3, 2)

1 CEA-DES (ex-DEN) - CEA-Direction des Energies (ex-Direction de l'Energie Nucléaire)
2 SERMA - Service d’Études des Réacteurs et de Mathématiques Appliquées
3 ECL - École Centrale de Lyon

MENDEL is the new generation depletion code system in CEA. It offers iso-capacity with the French current industrial fuel cycle code system DARWIN/PEPIN2. It can be used as a fuel cycle study stand alone code system to compute reactor cycle interest outputs: isotopic concentrations, masses, activities, decay heat, particle spectra... MENDEL also provides its depletion solvers to both Monte Carlo TRIPOLI-4 R and deterministic APOLLO3 R transport code systems.

Keywords: Bateman; CRAM; MENDEL; Bateman

Domains: Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex]; Nuclear Theory [nucl-th]

Sébastien Lahaye, Aimé Tsilanizara, Pierre Bellier, Thomas Bittar. Implementation of a CRAM solver in MENDEL Depletion Code System. International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C - 2017), Apr 2017, Jeju, South Korea. ⟨cea-02438382⟩