Research Article

Presentation and Discussion of the UAM/Exercise I-1b: “Pin-Cell Burn-Up Benchmark” with the Hybrid Method

Table 1

Hot full power (HFP) conditions for fuel pin-cell burn-up benchmark.

Fuel temperature (K) 900.0
Cladding temperature (K) 600.0
Moderator (coolant) temperature (K) 562.0
Moderator (coolant) density (g/cm3) 0.7484
Reactor power (MWt) 2772.0
Total number of fuel assemblies in the reactor core 177
Number of fuel rods per fuel assembly 208
Active core length (mm) 3571.20