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ANS hosts webinar on criticality safety standards
A diagram depicting the NRC’s regulatory structure for nuclear criticality safety. (Image: Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
The American Nuclear Society’s Risk-informed, Performance-based Principles and Policy Committee (RP3C) held another presentation in its monthly Community of Practice (CoP) series last month. RP3C chair Steven Krahn opened the meeting with brief introductory remarks about the importance of risk-informed, performance based (RIPB) decision-making and the need for new approaches to nuclear design that go beyond conventional and deterministic methods.
Lingrui Li, Zijia Zhao, Yanyun Ma, Zhe Ma, Jiang Lai, Yunliang Zhu
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 78 | Number 6 | August 2022 | Pages 475-489
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2022.2049121
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
With the development of magnetic confinement fusion (MCF), it has become feasible for fusion energy to solve the future energy crisis. High-energy neutrons are produced during the fusion reaction. Neutron shielding and the tritium breeding ratio in MCF require a neutron source of high precision. In traditional methods, the neutron source is supposed to be isotropic. However, the double-differential cross sections for nuclear fusion given in the ENDF/B-VI database make it possible to calculate the neutron direction distribution in deuterium-tritium (D-T) plasma. In this study, a Maxwellian reactivity rate database is obtained by extracting double-differential cross-section data from the ENDF/B-VI database and then revising it. Monte Carlo and discrete ordinate methods are used to simulate transportation and fusion in D-T plasma and obtain the angular distribution of the neutron generation rate. The results of a preliminary numerical simulation in a simple model tell us that the difference between anisotropy and isotropy can reach an average of 4.6%. A temperature-corrected double-differential cross-section database and a numerical simulation method are developed to calculate the angular distribution of the neutron generation rate.