Research Article
Neutronic Performance of the VVER-1000 Reactor Using Thorium Fuel with ENDF Library
Table 4
Comparison between current calculated parameters with references [
9,
19,
20].
| | Data source | DC (1/oC) | MTC (1/oC) | βeff |
| | UO2-7 (current results for UO2by ENDF/B-VII) | −2.88 × 10−5 | −1.39 × 10−4 | 0.0078 | | UO2-8 (current results for UO2by ENDF/B-VIII) | −2.61 × 10–5 | −1.13 × 10–4 | 0.00688 | | MCNPX 2.6, ENDF/B-VI [20] | — | — | 0.00711 | | WIMSD4 [9] | −2.04 × 10−5 | −1.15 × 10−4 | — | | Reactor design [19] | −2.11 × 10−5 | −1.30 × 10−4 | 0.00740 | | UTh-7 (current results for UO2+ThO2 by ENDF/B-VII) | −2.54 × 10−5 | −0.339 × 10−4 | 0.00628 | | UTh-8 (current results for UO2+ThO2 by ENDF/B-VIII) | −3.055 × 10−5 | −0.416 × 10−4 | 0.00545 |
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