Critical benchmarks at the Rensselaer zero-power reactor facility

Frank Saglime; Jeffrey Geuther; Timothy Trumbull; Glenn Winters; Jonathan Stephens

Critical benchmarks at the Rensselaer zero-power reactor facility

Frank Saglime, Jeffrey Geuther, Timothy Trumbull, Glenn Winters, Jonathan Stephens

Radiation Science & Engineering Center

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Abstract

A benchmarking project was performed at the Walthousen Critical Reactor Laboratory [1] at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Schenectady, NY, with the goal of submitting a benchmark to the International Criticality Safety Benchmark Evaluation Project [2]. A detailed model of the reactor was created using MCNP4C2 [3] using precise data for the reactor component compositions and dimensions. The model was then tested by using it to calculate k_eff at the experimentally-determined critical rod bank height and critical water height. The model was found to accurately predict k_eff for these conditions.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	PHYSOR-2006 - American Nuclear Society's Topical Meeting on Reactor Physics
State	Published - Dec 1 2006
Event	PHYSOR-2006 - American Nuclear Society's Topical Meeting on Reactor Physics - Vancouver, BC, Canada Duration: Sep 10 2006 → Sep 14 2006

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Name	PHYSOR-2006 - American Nuclear Society's Topical Meeting on Reactor Physics
Volume	2006

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Other	PHYSOR-2006 - American Nuclear Society's Topical Meeting on Reactor Physics
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Vancouver, BC
Period	9/10/06 → 9/14/06

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General Engineering

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Saglime, F, Geuther, J, Trumbull, T, Winters, G & Stephens, J 2006, Critical benchmarks at the Rensselaer zero-power reactor facility. in PHYSOR-2006 - American Nuclear Society's Topical Meeting on Reactor Physics. PHYSOR-2006 - American Nuclear Society's Topical Meeting on Reactor Physics, vol. 2006, PHYSOR-2006 - American Nuclear Society's Topical Meeting on Reactor Physics, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 9/10/06.

Critical benchmarks at the Rensselaer zero-power reactor facility. / Saglime, Frank; Geuther, Jeffrey; Trumbull, Timothy et al.
PHYSOR-2006 - American Nuclear Society's Topical Meeting on Reactor Physics. 2006. (PHYSOR-2006 - American Nuclear Society's Topical Meeting on Reactor Physics; Vol. 2006).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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