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Comparison of Two Approaches for Nuclear Data Uncertainty Propagation in MCNPX for Selected Fast Spectrum Critical Benchmarks

Zhu, T.
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Rochman, D.
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Vasiliev, A.
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2014
Nuclear Data Sheets

Nuclear data uncertainty propagation based on stochastic sampling ( SS) is becoming more attractive while leveraging modern computer power. Two variants of the SS approach are compared in this paper. The Total Monte Carlo (TMC) method by the Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group (NRG) generates perturbed ENDF-6-formatted nuclear data by varying nuclear reaction model parameters. At Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) the Nuclear data Uncertainty Stochastic Sampling (NUSS) system generates perturbed ACE-formatted nuclear data files by applying multigroup nuclear data covariances onto pointwise ACE-formatted nuclear data. Uncertainties of Pu-239 and U-235 from ENDF/B-VII.1, ZZ-SCALE6/COVA-44G and TENDL covariance libraries are considered in NUSS and propagated in MCNPX calculations for well-studied Jezebel and Godiva fast spectrum critical benchmarks. The corresponding uncertainty results obtained by TMC are compared with NUSS results and the deterministic Sensitivity/Uncertainty method of TSUNAMI-3D from SCALE6 package is also applied to serve as a separate verification. The discrepancies in the propagated Pu-239 and U-235 uncertainties due to method and covariance differences are discussed.

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research article
DOI
10.1016/j.nds.2014.04.088
Web of Science ID

WOS:000347704400087

Author(s)
Zhu, T.
Rochman, D.
Vasiliev, A.
Ferroukhi, H.
Wieselquist, W.
Pautz, A.  
Date Issued

2014

Publisher

Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science

Published in
Nuclear Data Sheets
Volume

118

Start page

388

End page

391

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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February 20, 2015
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