Reliability assessment of high energy particle induced radioactivity calculation code DCHAIN-SP 2001 by analysis of integral activation experiments with 14MeV neutrons

14-MeV中性子を用いた積分放射化実験解析による高エネルギー粒子誘導放射能計算コードDCHAIN-SP 2001の信頼性評価

甲斐 哲也   ; 前川 藤夫  ; 春日井 好己  ; 小迫 和明*; 高田 弘   ; 池田 裕二郎

Kai, Tetsuya; Maekawa, Fujio; Kasugai, Yoshimi; Kosako, Kazuaki*; Takada, Hiroshi; Ikeda, Yujiro

14-MeV中性子を用いた積分放射化実験解析を通して、高エネルギー粒子誘導放射能計算コードDCHAIN-SP 2001の信頼性評価を行った。解析を行った実験は、原研FNSのD-T中性子源を用いて行われた(1) 核融合炉材料の崩壊線測定実験,(2) 32種の核融合炉材料に対する崩壊熱測定実験,(3)水銀の積分放射化実験、の3件である。解析の結果、DCHAIN-SP 2001による計算は、(1)(3)の実験値をそれぞれ30%,20%,20%以内で予測することができた。Beteman方程式の解法アルゴリズム,及び20MeV以下の放射化断面積と付属の崩壊データについて適切であるという結論が得られた。

Reliability assessment for the High Energy Particle Induced Radioactivity Calculation Code DCHAIN-SP 2001 was carried out through analysis of integral activation experiments with 14-MeV neutrons. The following three series of experiments conducted at the D-T neutron source facility, FNS, in JAERI were employed: (1) the decay gamma-ray measurement experiment for fusion reactor materials, (2) the decay heat measurement experiment for 32 fusion reactor materials, and (3) the integral activation experiment on mercury.As a result, it was found that the calculations with DCHAIN-SP 2001 predicted the experimental data for (1)(3) approximately within 30%, 20% and 20%, respectively. It was concluded that the activation cross section data below 20 MeV and the associated decay data as well as the calculation algorithm for solving the Beteman equation that was the master equation of DCHAIN-SP were adequate.