Research Article

Uncertainty Propagation Analysis for PWR Burnup Pin-Cell Benchmark by Monte Carlo Code McCARD

Table 3

RSDs (%) of one-group reaction rates with ENDF/B-VII.1 and SCALE6.1/COVA covariance data.

Cov. dataBurnup (MWd/kgU) 235U ( ) 235U ( , fis) 238U ( ) 238U ( , fis)

ENDF/B-VII.101.350.530.943.97
101.450.690.873.97
201.550.880.833.85
301.621.060.793.88
401.731.280.763.79
501.791.430.673.80
601.881.600.703.71

SCALE 6.1
/COVA-44G
01.380.510.823.77
101.460.610.813.89
201.550.790.753.85
301.580.900.733.77
401.631.040.683.83
501.691.180.643.81
601.751.290.663.79