Transmutation by Adiabatic Resonance Crossing Experiment (TARC) benchmarking

Ismailov, K.*; Nishihara, Kenji  ; Sasa, Toshinobu   ; Sugawara, Takanori  ; Saito, Masaki*

In present study the benchmarking of TARC experiment was done. MCNPX code with JENDL-HE, JENDL-4, JENDL-3.3 and LA-150 nuclear data libraries were used for simulations. The calculated neutron fluences, energy-time correlations of resonance reactions and transmutation rates of Tc and I were compared with experimental measurements. On the base of comparative analysis of simulations the validation of nuclear data libraries was performed and recommendations were given, as follows: (1) the JENDL-4 library contains better neutron elastic cross-section data for natural lead in energy range from 0.01 eV to 100 eV comparing to other considered data libraries; (2) the JENDL-HE (JENDL-3.3) has better neutron inelastic scattering cross-sections for lead in energy range of 1-3 MeV, although the experimental errors in neutron fluence are rather large; (3) neutron capture cross-sections of I in JENDL-4 library should be used for I transmutation process simulations.