Research Article
Computational Model for the Neutronic Simulation of Pebble Bed Reactor’s Core Using MCNPX
Table 8
Results of B4 problem for both Original and Deviated benchmarks.
| | | Original benchmark | Deviated benchmark | | | B41 (%) | B42 (%) | B41 (%) | B42 (%) | | | T/D | M | T/D | M | T/D | M | T/D | M |
| | China | 18.27 | 19.36 | 1.62 | 1.79 | 17.23 | 18.28 | 1.54 | 1.57 | | France1 | — | — | — | — | — | 13.66 | — | 1.52 | | | | | | | 13.80 | | | | Germany | 20.50 | — | 1.97 | — | 19.31 | — | 1.86 | — | | The Netherlands | 13.61 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | | Our study | — | 17.72 | — | 1.82 | — | 16.58 | — | 1.65 |
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The first row of results was obtained with a homogeneous simplified model.
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