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The past few years have seen a concerted effort from many U.S. states to encourage nuclear development. The momentum behind nuclear-friendly policies has grown considerably, with many states repealing moratoriums, courting nuclear developers and suppliers, and in some cases creating advisory groups and road maps to push deployment of new nuclear reactors.
Jin Li, Volkan Seker, Andrew Ward, Thomas Downar
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 199 | Number 5 | May 2025 | Pages 772-792
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2024.2397621
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Monte Carlo codes have become increasingly popular for generating homogenized few-group cross-section data, especially for advanced reactor designs that have complex geometries and nontraditional compositions. However, the stochastic nature of Monte Carlo processes has the potential to introduce additional statistical uncertainties in the overall uncertainty in the prediction of core behavior. The work performed in this research quantified the additional uncertainty introduced by the use of Monte Carlo multigroup cross sections into the analysis of graphite-moderated pebble bed reactors. In this research, the objective was achieved by performing uncertainty quantification for the key output parameters in deterministic steady-state and transient safety calculations. The results show that when the homogenized multigroup cross sections are generated with a sufficient number of neutron histories in the Monte Carlo calculation, the uncertainties in the subsequent deterministic simulations caused by the Monte Carlo cross-section uncertainty are negligible compared to the contributions from the uncertainties of other input parameters.