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Sugiyama, Daisuke*; Nakabayashi, Ryo*; Tanaka, Shingo*; Koma, Yoshikazu; Takahatake, Yoko
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 58(4), p.493 - 506, 2021/04
Times Cited Count：2 Percentile：30.55(Nuclear Science & Technology)Sugiyama, Daisuke*; Nakabayashi, Ryo*; Koma, Yoshikazu; Takahatake, Yoko; Tsukamoto, Masaki*
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 56(9-10), p.881 - 890, 2019/09
Times Cited Count：4 Percentile：40.43(Nuclear Science & Technology)Nagaya, Yasunobu; Okumura, Keisuke; Sakurai, Takeshi; Mori, Takamasa
JAEA-Data/Code 2016-018, 421 Pages, 2017/03
JAEA-Data-Code-2016-018.pdf:3.89MB
JAEA-Data-Code-2016-018-appendix(CD-ROM).zip:4.02MBJAEA-Data-Code-2016-018-hyperlink.zip:1.94MB
In order to realize fast and accurate Monte Carlo simulation of neutron and photon transport problems, two Monte Carlo codes MVP (continuous-energy method) and GMVP (multigroup method) have been developed at Japan Atomic Energy Agency. The codes have adopted a vectorized algorithm and have been developed for vector-type supercomputers. They also support parallel processing with a standard parallelization library MPI and thus a speed-up of Monte Carlo calculations can be achieved on general computing platforms. The first and second versions of the codes were released in 1994 and 2005, respectively. They have been extensively improved and new capabilities have been implemented. The major improvements and new capabilities are as follows: (1) perturbation calculation for effective multiplication factor, (2) exact resonant elastic scattering model, (3) calculation of reactor kinetics parameters, (4) photo-nuclear model, (5) simulation of delayed neutrons, (6) generation of group constants, etc. This report describes the physical model, geometry description method used in the codes, new capabilities and input instructions.
Ishitsuka, Etsuo; Kenzhina, I. E.*; Okumura, Keisuke; Takemoto, Noriyuki; Chikhray, Y.*
JAEA-Technology 2016-022, 35 Pages, 2016/10
JAEA-Technology-2016-022.pdf:3.73MB
As a part of study on the mechanism of tritium release to the primary coolant in research and testing reactors, the calculation methods by PHITS code is studied to evaluate the recoil tritium release rate from beryllium core components. Calculations using neutron and triton sources were compared, and it is clear that the tritium release rates in both cases show similar values. However, the calculation speed for the triton source cases is two orders faster than that for the neutron source case. It is also clear that the calculation up to history number per unit volume of 2
10
(cm
) is necessary to determine the recoil tritium release rate of two effective digits precision. Furthermore, the relationship between the beryllium shape and recoil tritium release rate using the triton sources was studied. Recoil tritium release rate showed linear relation to the surface area per volume of beryllium, and the recoil tritium release rate showed about half of the conventional equation value.
Suyama, Kenya; Mochizuki, Hiroki*
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 42(7), p.661 - 669, 2005/07
Times Cited Count：15 Percentile：69.79(Nuclear Science & Technology)Burnup is important value for criticality safety evaluation of spent nuclear fuel. Nd-148 method is one of most important method to evaluate the burnup of post irradiation examination (PIE) samples, and well known that it has good accuracy. However, the evaluated burnup values could be perturbed by the neutron capture reaction of Nd-147 and Nd-148. And in the analysis of PIE data from PWR, the calculation results of Nd-148 have approximately more than 1% deviation from experiment. In this study, the contribution of neutron capture reaction of Nd-147 and Nd-148 to Nd-148 amount are discussed. Especially for Nd-147 contribution, it is shown that the current evaluated cross section of Nd-147 is not supported and the new evaluation is consistent with the analysis of PIE data. Possible perturbed amount of Nd-148 by both reactions is less than 0.7% for normal reactor operation condition, and it is approximately 0.1% for 30 GWd/t (BWR) and 40 GWd/t (PWR). Finally, we confirm again that Nd-148 method is good evaluation method.
Nagaya, Yasunobu; Okumura, Keisuke; Mori, Takamasa; Nakagawa, Masayuki
JAERI 1348, 388 Pages, 2005/06
To realize fast and accurate Monte Carlo simulation of neutron and photon transport problems, two vectorized Monte Carlo codes MVP and GMVP have been developed at JAERI. MVP is based on the continuous energy model and GMVP is on the multigroup model. Compared with conventional scalar codes, these codes achieve higher computation speed by a factor of 10 or more on vector supercomputers. Both codes have sufficient functions for production use by adopting accurate physics model, geometry description capability and variance reduction techniques. The first version of the codes was released in 1994. They have been extensively improved and new functions have been implemented. The major improvements and new functions are (1) capability to treat the scattering model expressed with File 6 of the ENDF-6 format, (2) time-dependent tallies, (3) reaction rate calculation with the pointwise response function, (4) flexible source specification, etc. This report describes the physical model, geometry description method used in the codes, new functions and how to use them.
Nagaya, Yasunobu; Mori, Takamasa
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 42(5), p.428 - 441, 2005/05
Times Cited Count：61 Percentile：95.82(Nuclear Science & Technology)A new method to estimate a change in the effective multiplication factor due to the perturbed fission source distribution has been proposed for Monte Carlo perturbation calculations with the correlated sampling and differential operator sampling techniques. The method has been implemented into the MVP code for verification. Simple benchmark problems have been set up for fast and thermal systems and the applicability of the method has been verified with the problems. In consequence, it has been confirmed that the method is very effective to estimate the change. It has been also shown that there are some cases where the perturbed source effect is significant and the change in reactivity cannot be estimated accurately without taking the effect into account. Even in such cases, the new method can estimate the perturbed source effect and the estimation of the change in reactivity has been remarkably improved.
Matsubayashi, Masahito; Hibiki, Takashi*; Mishima, Kaichiro*; Yoshii, Koji*; Okamoto, Koji*
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 533(3), p.481 - 490, 2004/11
Times Cited Count：5 Percentile：30.85(Instruments & Instrumentation)The validity of a fast neutron radiography quantification method, the 
-scaling method, which was originally proposed for thermal neutron radiography was examined with Monte Carlo calculations and experiments conducted at the YAYOI fast neutron source reactor. Water and copper were selected as comparative samples for a thermal neutron radiography case and a dense object, respectively. Although different characteristics on effective macroscopic cross-sections were implied by the simulation, the -scaled experimental results with the fission neutron spectrum cross-sections were well fitted to the measurements for both the water and copper samples. This indicates that the -scaling method could be successfully adopted for quantitative measurements in fast neutron radiography.
Okumura, Keisuke
Nihon Genshiryoku Gakkai Dai-36-Kai Robutsuri Kaki Semina Tekisuto, p.81 - 102, 2004/08
The modern node method which uses a discontinuous factor has come to be widely used recently in the reactor core analyses of commercial light water reactors. The basic theory, numerical computation technique and examples of calculation results are explained for biginners of the modern nodal method.
Sato, Satoshi
JAERI-Research 2003-014, 223 Pages, 2003/09
JAERI-Research-2003-014.pdf:10.94MB
no abstracts in English
Tobita, Masahiro*; Matsui, Yoshinori
JAERI-Tech 2003-042, 132 Pages, 2003/03
JAERI-Tech-2003-042.pdf:7.19MB
Prediction of irradiation temperature is one of the important issues in the design of the capsule for irradiation test. Many kinds of capsules with complex structure have been designed for recent irradiation requests, and three-dimensional (3D) temperature calculation becomes inevitable for the evaluation of irradiation temperature. For such 3D calculation, however, many works are usually needed for input data preparation, and a lot of time and resources are necessary for parametric studies in the design. To improve such situation, JAERI introduced 3D-FEM (finite element method) code NISA (Numerically Integrated elements for System Analysis) and developed several subprograms, which enabled to support input preparation works in the capsule design. The 3D temperature calculation of the capsule are able to carried out in much easier way by the help of the subprograms, and specific features in the irradiation tests such as non-uniform gamma heating in the capsule, becomes to be considered.
-ray dose rates around the duct penetration by three-dimensional Monte Carlo decay -ray transport calculation with variance reduction methodSato, Satoshi; Iida, Hiromasa; Nishitani, Takeo
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 39(11), p.1237 - 1246, 2002/11
Times Cited Count：27 Percentile：83.19(Nuclear Science & Technology)no abstracts in English
Kugo, Teruhiko
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 39(3), p.256 - 263, 2002/03
Times Cited Count：3 Percentile：23.39(Nuclear Science & Technology)Two vector computation algorithms; an odd-even sweep (OES) method and an independent sequential sweep (ISS) method, have been developed for the characteristics method to solve the neutron transport equation in a heterogeneous geometry. They realize long vector lengths without recursive operations for effective use of vector computers. Their efficiency has been investigated to a realistic fuel assembly calculation. For both methods, a vector computation is 15 times faster than a scalar computation. From a viewpoint of a comparison between the OES and ISS methods, the ISS method is superior to the OES method because the ISS method shows a faster convergence and saves a computer memory without reducing a computation speed.
Kugo, Teruhiko
JAERI-Research 2001-051, 39 Pages, 2001/11
JAERI-Research-2001-051.pdf:2.04MB
Fast computation of the characteristics method to solve the neutron transport equation in a heterogeneous geometry has been studied. Two vector computation algorithms; an odd-even sweep (OES) method and an independent sequential sweep (ISS) method have been developed and their efficiency to a typical fuel assembly calculation has been investigated. For both methods, a vector computation is 15 times faster than a scalar computation. From a viewpoint of comparison between the OES and ISS methods, the ISS method is superior to the OES method because the ISS method shows a faster convergence and saves a computer memory without reducing a computation speed. In the vector computation, a table-look-up method to reduce computation time of an exponential function saves only 20% of a whole computation time. Both the coarse mesh rebalance method and the Aitken acceleration method are effective as acceleration methods for the characteristics method, a combination of them saves 70-80% of outer iterations compared with a free iteration.
Nagao, Yoshiharu
JAERI-Conf 2000-018, p.156 - 167, 2001/01
no abstracts in English
Okumura, Keisuke
JAERI-Data/Code 98-025, 243 Pages, 1998/10
JAERI-Data-Code-98-025.pdf:10.15MB
no abstracts in English
*; Kaji, Yoshiyuki; *; ; *; Kaburaki, Hideo
Keisan Kogaku Koenkai Rombunshu, 3(1), p.59 - 62, 1998/05
no abstracts in English
Naito, Yoshitaka; Yamamoto, Toshihiro; Arakawa, Takuya*; Sakurai, Kiyoshi
PHYSOR 96: Int. Conf. on the Physics of Reactors, 4, p.L31 - L40, 1996/00
no abstracts in English
July, 1993Research Committee on Reactor Physics
JAERI-M 93-254, 36 Pages, 1994/01
no abstracts in English
Fujimura, Toichiro
Computer Physics Communications, 82, p.111 - 119, 1994/00
Times Cited Count：1 Percentile：21.58(Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications)no abstracts in English
