SCALE capabilities for high temperature gas-cooled reactor analysis

F Bostelmann, C Celik, ML Williams, RJ Ellis… - Annals of Nuclear …, 2020 - Elsevier
The SCALE code system's ability to address stochastic distributions of fuel particles within a
graphite matrix has been revisited in both multigroup (MG) features and continuous-energy …

Key nuclear data impacting reactivity in advanced reactors

F Bostelmann, G Ilas, WA Wieselquist - 2020 - osti.gov
Advanced reactor concepts currently being developed throughout the industry are
significantly different from light water reactor (LWR) designs with respect to geometry …

RELAP5-3D validation studies based on the High Temperature Test facility

RF Kile, AS Epiney, NR Brown - Nuclear Engineering and Design, 2024 - Elsevier
In the spring and summer of 2019, experiments were conducted at the High Temperature
Test Facility (HTTF) that form the basis of an upcoming high-temperature gas-cooled reactor …

Nuclear data uncertainty and sensitivity analysis of the VHTRC benchmark using SCALE

F Bostelmann, G Strydom - Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Very High Temperature Critical Assembly (VHTRC) experiment represents one
of the few data sets available for the validation of HTGR lattice physics. Within the framework …

The IAEA coordinated research programme on HTGR uncertainty analysis: Phase I status and Ex. I-1 prismatic reference results

F Bostelmann, G Strydom, F Reitsma… - Nuclear Engineering and …, 2016 - Elsevier
The quantification of uncertainties in design and safety analysis of reactors is today not only
broadly accepted, but in many cases became the preferred way to replace traditional …

Small modular high temperature reactor optimisation part 2: Reactivity control for prismatic core high temperature small modular reactor, including fixed burnable …

S Atkinson, D Litskevich, B Merk - Progress in Nuclear Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
This article investigates a high temperature prismatic core small modular reactor concept
based on the U-Battery. To achieve a long operational time without reloading of the fuel, a …

Comprehensive analysis of ASTRA benchmark with MCU-HTR and Serpent codes

AE Kruglikov, MV Shchurovskaya, YN Volkov… - Annals of Nuclear …, 2024 - Elsevier
Key problems in the simulation of pebble-bed high-temperature gas-cooled reactors include
approximations of TRISO fuel particles and pebble-bed models, choice of nuclear data …

Consistent multi-scale uncertainty quantification methodology for multi-physics modelling of prismatic HTGRs

G Strydom - 2020 - repository.nwu.ac.za
As one of the Generation-IV advanced reactor types, High Temperature Gas-Cooled
Reactors (HTGRs) can provide high-quality heat to industrial processes, in addition to …

Simulation-based studies on graphite absorption properties for ASTRA critical experiments

MV Shchurovskaya, AE Kruglikov, YN Volkov… - Annals of Nuclear …, 2022 - Elsevier
This work is focused on the improvement of the graphite impurity content characterization for
the ASTRA critical facility. The equivalent boron content for the graphite reflectors of the …

Comparison of Irradiated TRISO Fuel Radioactivity from Multiple Advanced Reactor Designs

P Ivanusa, P Jensen, CA Condon, AL Bunn - Nuclear Technology, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The SCALE code system was used to model, deplete, and compare several different tri-
structural isotropic (TRISO)–fueled reactor designs: a helium-cooled prismatic reactor, a …