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Data assimilation of post-irradiation examination data for fission yields from GEF

Siefman, Daniel  
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Hursin, Mathieu
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Sjostrand, Henrik
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August 28, 2020
Epj Nuclear Sciences & Technologies

Nuclear data, especially fission yields, create uncertainties in the predicted concentrations of fission products in spent fuel which can exceed engineering target accuracies. Herein, we present a new framework that extends data assimilation methods to burnup simulations by using post-irradiation examination experiments. The adjusted fission yields lowered the bias and reduced the uncertainty of the simulations. Our approach adjusts the model parameters of the code GEF. We compare the BFMC and MOCABA approaches to data assimilation, focusing especially on the effects of the non-normality of GEF's fission yields. In the application that we present, the best data assimilation framework decreased the average bias of the simulations from 26% to 14%. The average relative standard deviation decreased from 21% to 14%. The GEF fission yields after data assimilation agreed better with those in JEFF3.3. For Pu-239 thermal fission, the average relative difference from JEFF3.3 was 16% before data assimilation and after it was 12%. For the standard deviations of the fission yields, GEF's were 100% larger than JEFF3.3's before data assimilation and after were only 4% larger. The inconsistency of the integral data had an important effect on MOCABA, as shown with the Marginal Likelihood Optimization method. When the method was not applied, MOCABA's adjusted fission yields worsened the bias of the simulations by 30%. BFMC showed that it inherently accounted for this inconsistency. Applying Marginal Likelihood Optimization with BFMC gave a 2% lower bias compared to not applying it, but the results were more poorly converged.

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research article
DOI
10.1051/epjn/2020015
Web of Science ID

WOS:000566430500001

Author(s)
Siefman, Daniel  
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Hursin, Mathieu
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Sjostrand, Henrik
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Schnabel, Georg
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Rochman, Dimitri
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Pautz, Andreas  
Date Issued

2020-08-28

Publisher

EDP SCIENCES S A

Published in
Epj Nuclear Sciences & Technologies
Volume

6

Start page

52

Subjects

Nuclear Science & Technology

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neutron cross-section

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nuclear-data

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uncertainty propagation

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product yields

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integral experiments

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covariance data

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decay heat

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fuel

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validation

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reactivity

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