Aures, A.Berner, N.Pautz, A.Zwermann, W.2020-03-032020-03-032020-03-032020-03-0110.1016/j.anucene.2019.107146https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/166646WOS:000509819100004The impact of nuclear data uncertainties is studied for the reactor power and the reactivity during control rod withdrawal transients with reactivity insertions of 0.5$ and 0.97$, respectively, for a PWR mini-core model. Multi-group cross sections, the multiplicities of both prompt and delayed neutrons, and fission spectra are varied by the application of the random sampling-based method XSUSA with covariance data of SCALE 6.1 supplemented by JENDL-4.0. The varied multi-group data are used by TRITON/NEWT to generate varied 2-group cross sections, which are then applied in neutron-kinetic/thermal-hydraulic calculations with DYN3D-ATHLET. A significant impact on both the reactivity uncertainty and the power uncertainty is observed. Since the distributional properties of the output time series vary across the problem time, the distribution-free Wilks tolerance limit is applied as a robust uncertainty measure to complex time series patterns. The most contributing nuclide reactions to the power uncertainty are identified via sensitivity analysis. (C) 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.Nuclear Science & Technologyuncertainty analysissensitivity analysistmi-1 mini-core transientxsusadyn3d-athletwilks tolerance limitsquared multiple correlation coefficientvalidationtext::journal::journal article::research article