JUPITER-III experiment analyses (III)
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The works of JUPITER sub-working group in FT'88 are summarized in this report. JUPITRR-III program is the co-operative research program between PNC and DOE, using ZPPR in ANL-W. The JUPITER sab-working group is organized by the reactor physics group of Reactor Research and Development Project, PNC, for planning and analysis of the experiment in JUPITER-III program. The first half of the JUPITER-III program, the ZPPR-17 program, was physics benchmark experiments to study the neutronic behavior of a 650 MWe-size, axially heterogeneous LMR core. The second half of the program, the ZPPR-18 program, was 1000 MWe-size two-zone homogeneous cores. ZPPR-17 was analysed almost completely, but ZPPR-18 analysis is being prepared. The main results of this year are as follows. (1)The following conclusions were obtained from the ZPPR-17 analysis. (i)In addition to the standard analysis model, the center-line and multi-drawer models were used. The effects on criticality were +0.17% for the former model and +0.080.09% for the latter model. The C/E values were almost the same as those for ZPPR-9 and ZPPR-13A. (ii)The C/E values were about 0.9 at the core center, and became about 5% higher at the core edge. The similar radial variations of C/E were observed in reaction rate distributions. The magnitude of 510% in the mispredictions are consistent with the previous values obtained in the analysis of the homogeneous core. (iii)The C/E values of sodium void reactivities were about 1.21.5 for the core regions, and about 0.8 for the internal blanket regions. The C/E values of sample reactirities in the internal blanket region were smaller than those in the core region by about 20% for Pu sample and by about 10% for B sample. The same underprediction in the internal blanket region was also seen in ZPPR-13A. (2)An attempt was made for building a data base system for the JUPITER program using the ZPPR-17A experimental data as an example. Some ...