Development of the next generation reactor analysis code system, MARBLE

Yokoyama, Kenji   ; Tatsumi, Masahiro*; Hirai, Yasushi*; Hyodo, Hideaki*; Numata, Kazuyuki*; Iwai, Takehiko*; Jin, Tomoyuki*; Hazama, Taira ; Nagaya, Yasunobu  ; Chiba, Go; Kugo, Teruhiko ; Ishikawa, Makoto

A next generation reactor analysis code system, MARBLE, has been developed. MARBLE is a successor of the fast reactor neutronics analysis code systems, JOINT-FR and SAGEP-FR (conventional system), which were developed for so-called JUPITER standard analysis methods. MARBLE has the equivalent analysis capability to the conventional system. On the other hand, burnup analysis functionality for power reactors as improved compared with the conventional system. In the development of MARBLE, the object oriented technology was adopted. As a result, MARBLE became an assembly of components for building an analysis code (i.e. framework) but not an independent analysis code system which simply receives input and returns output. Furthermore, MARBLE provides some pre-built analysis code systems such as the fast reactor neutronics analysis code system, SCHEME, which corresponds to the conventional code and the fast reactor burnup analysis code system, ORPHEUS.