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The drive to Kairos Power’s reactor demonstration site in Oak Ridge, Tenn., is not only scenic—it’s historic. Nearly 85 years ago, roughly 30,000 construction workers transformed orchards and farmland into a key Manhattan Project site. Depending on your route, you may pass by one of the three gatehouses that were once military checkpoints controlling access to Atomic Energy Commission production facilities.
Dong Hyuk Lee, Hyung Jin Shim, Chang Hyo Kim
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 187 | Number 2 | August 2017 | Pages 154-165
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2017.1307031
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The continuous-energy Monte Carlo (MC) sensitivity and uncertainty (S/U) analysis conducted using the multigroup covariance matrices has a theoretical pitfall in that it is inconsistent with the principle of continuous-energy MC neutronics calculations because the use of the multigroup covariance matrices means treating covariance data as multigroup variables rather than continuous-energy variables. As a way to get around this deficiency and perform the MC S/U analysis on the theoretically consistent principle, this paper presents a new continuous-energy MC S/U formulation which directly utilizes the continuous-energy covariance data in the evaluated nuclear data libraries instead of the multigroup covariance matrices produced by nuclear data processing codes. The validity of the new MC S/U formulation is examined in terms of the input-nuclear-data-induced k uncertainty of the Godiva critical assembly and the TMI-1 pin cell problem by inputting the continuous-energy covariance data of nuclides involved directly into the continuous-energy MC transport calculations by a Seoul National University MC code, McCARD.