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Tada, Kenichi
Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Nuclear Criticality Safety (ICNC2023) (Internet), 8 Pages, 2023/10
The number of energy grids of the thermal neutron scattering law data has a large impact on the data size of a cross section file of continuous energy Monte Carlo calculation codes. The optimization of the number of energy grids is an effective way to reduce the data size. This study developed the linearization method of the thermal neutron scattering cross section to optimize the number of energy grids and the linearization function was implemented in the nuclear data processing code FRENDY. The linearization process which is used in the resonance reconstruction and the Doppler broadening was adopted. The criticality benchmarks which use ZrH as the moderator were calculated to estimate the impact of the difference of the energy grids on neutronics calculations. The calculation results indicate that the linearization of the thermal neutron scattering cross section improves the prediction accuracy of neutronics calculations.
Tada, Kenichi
Kaku Deta Nyusu (Internet), (135), p.1 - 10, 2023/06
This article summarizes presentations at the IAEA technical meeting on nuclear data processing. In this technical meeting, the current development status of nuclear data processing codes and comparisons of the processing results using these codes were presented.
Tada, Kenichi; Endo, Tomohiro*
EPJ Web of Conferences, 284, p.14013_1 - 14013_4, 2023/05
Times Cited Count：0 Percentile：0.21(Nuclear Science & Technology)The self-shielding effect in the unresolved resonance region has a large impact on the fast- and intermediate-spectrum reactors. The probability table method is widely used for continuous-energy Monte Carlo calculation codes to treat the effect. In this method, a table provides the probability distribution of the cross-section for a nuclide in the given energy grid points. The table is generated by averaging with a lot of "ladders" which represent pseudo resonance structures. Though many nuclear data processing codes require the number of ladders as an input parameter to generate the probability table, an optimal number of ladders has not been investigated. Our previous study revealed that the suitable number of ladders depends on the nuclide and its resonance parameters. This result indicates that it is very difficult for users to find the optimal number of ladders. We developed the calculation method of the statistical uncertainty for the probability table generation.
Tada, Kenichi
Robutsuri No Kenkyu (Internet), (75), 13 Pages, 2023/03
In addition to nuclear data processing, FRENDY has various functions such as editing nuclear data and plotting cross section data. This document introduces these functions.
Tada, Kenichi
Shahei Kaiseki No V&V Gaidorain Sakutei Ni Mukete, p.11 - 16, 2023/03
An overview of the nuclear data processing code FRENDY is introduced for shielding calculation code users who are not familiar with FRENDY. This paper explains the nuclear data processing flow in FRENDY, the purpose of use, input examples, verification and validation reports, and so on.
Tada, Kenichi; Yamamoto, Akio*; Kunieda, Satoshi; Konno, Chikara; Kondo, Ryoichi; Endo, Tomohiro*; Chiba, Go*; Ono, Michitaka*; Tojo, Masayuki*
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 10 Pages, 2023/00
Times Cited Count：0 Percentile：0.01(Nuclear Science & Technology)Nuclear data processing code is important to connect evaluated nuclear data libraries and radiation transport codes. The nuclear data processing code FRENDY version 1 was released in 2019 to generate ACE formatted cross section files with simple input data. After we released FRENDY version 1, many functions were developed, e.g., neutron multi-group cross section generation, explicit consideration of the resonance interference effect among different nuclides in a material, consideration of the resonance upscattering, ACE file perturbation, and modification of ENDF-6 formatted file. FRENDY version 2 was released including these new functions. It generates GENDF and MATXS formatted neutron multi-group cross section files from an ACE formatted cross section file or an evaluated nuclear data file. This paper explains the features of the new functions implemented in FRENDY version 2 and the verification of the neutron multigroup cross section generation function of this code.
Tada, Kenichi; Yamamoto, Akio*; Endo, Tomohiro*; Chiba, Go*; Ono, Michitaka*; Tojo, Masayuki*
Proceedings of International Conference on Physics of Reactors 2022 (PHYSOR 2022) (Internet), 10 Pages, 2022/05
Nuclear data processing is an important interface between an evaluated nuclear data library and nuclear transport calculation codes. JAEA has developed a new nuclear data processing code FRENDY from 2013. FRENDY version 1 generates ACE files which are used for the continuous-energy Monte Carlo codes including PHITS, Serpent, and MCNP; it was released as an open-source software under the 2-clause BSD license in 2019. After FRENDY version 1 was released, many functions are developed: the multi-group neutron cross-section library generation, the statistical uncertainty quantification for the probability tables for unresolved resonance cross-section, the perturbation of the ACE file, and the modification of the ENDF-6 formatted nuclear data file, etc. We released FRENDY version 2 including these functions. This presentation explains the overview of FRENDY and features of the new functions implemented in FRENDY version 2.
Tada, Kenichi; Iwamoto, Osamu
Proceedings of 2019 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC 2019), Vol.2, p.1622 - 1624, 2020/08
Times Cited Count：0 Percentile：0.08(Nuclear Science & Technology)JAEA has published the evaluated nuclear data library JENDL to improve the prediction accuracy of nuclear calculations. JENDL is now one of the most famous evaluated nuclear data libraries in the world. This presentation explains the recent activity of the JENDL project and overview of the next version of general-purpose file JENDL-5. Nuclear calculation codes cannot treat the evaluated nuclear data library. This presentation also explains the nuclear data processing system FRENDY which is used to generate cross section library for a nuclear calculation code.
Tada, Kenichi
Proceedings of International Conference on the Physics of Reactors; Transition To A Scalable Nuclear Future (PHYSOR 2020) (USB Flash Drive), 8 Pages, 2020/03
The probability table is widely used for continuous energy Monte Carlo calculation codes to treat the self-shielding effect in the unresolved resonance region. The ladder method is used to calculate the probability table. This method generates a lot of pseudo resonance structures using random numbers based on the averaged resonance parameters. The probability table affects the ladder number. i.e., number of pseudo resonance structures. The ladder number has large impact on the generation time of the cross section library. In this study, the appropriate ladder number is investigated. The probability table of all nuclides prepared in JENDL-4.0 is used to investigate the appropriate ladder number. The comparison results indicate that the differences of the probability table are enough small when the ladder number is 100.
Tada, Kenichi; Kunieda, Satoshi
KURNS-EKR-5, p.229 - 232, 2019/12
The R-matrix limited formula is formatted by the current nuclear data format and it is adopted some nuclei in the latest evaluated nuclear data library. Since the processing of the R-matrix limited formula is significantly different to the other resonance formulae, it is difficult to treat this formula without large modification of the nuclear data processing code. In this study, we implemented one of the Rmatrix code AMUR to treat this formula in FRENDY. The processing results of FRENDY are compared to those of NJOY2016 to verify FRENDY. The comparison results indicate that FRENDY appropriately treat the R-matrix limited formula with similar computational time.
Tada, Kenichi
JAEA-Conf 2019-001, p.29 - 34, 2019/11
JAEA has developed a new nuclear data processing code FRENDY (FRom Evaluated Nuclear Data librarY to any application) to generate a cross-section data library from evaluated nuclear data library JENDL. In this presentation, author explains how to generate cross-section data library and overview and features of FRENDY.
Tada, Kenichi
Nuclear Data Newsletter (Internet), (67), P. 2, 2019/07
This is an advertisement of our nuclear data processing system FRENDY for Nuclear Data Newsletter published by IAEA nuclear data section.
Tada, Kenichi
Kaku Deta Nyusu (Internet), (122), p.9 - 21, 2019/02
This paper reports the overview of the technical meeting of nuclear data processing in IAEA to Japanese researchers. In this technical meeting, the current status of nuclear data processing codes and verification of them are described.
Tada, Kenichi
Robutsuri No Kenkyu (Internet), (71), 13 Pages, 2019/02
The nuclear data processing is very important to connect between the evaluated nuclear data library and the particle transport calculation code. However, many nuclear engineers do not know well about the nuclear data processing. This paper describes the overview of nuclear data processing and our nuclear data processing code FRENDY. This paper also lists references about the nuclear data processing.
Tada, Kenichi; Kunieda, Satoshi; Nagaya, Yasunobu
JAEA-Data/Code 2018-014, 106 Pages, 2019/01
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A new nuclear data processing code FRENDY has been developed in order to process the evaluated nuclear data library JENDL. Development of FRENDY helps to disseminate JENDL and various nuclear calculation codes. FRENDY is developed not only to process the evaluated nuclear data file but also to implement the FRENDY functions to other calculation codes. Users can easily use many functions e.g., read, write, and process the evaluated nuclear data file, in their own codes when they implement the classes of FRENDY to their codes. FRENDY is coded with considering maintainability, modularity, portability and flexibility. The processing method of FRENDY is similar to that of NJOY. The current version of FRENDY treats the ENDF-6 format and generates the ACE file which is used for the continuous energy Monte Carlo codes such as PHITS and MCNP. This report describes the nuclear data processing methods and input instructions for FRENDY.
Tada, Kenichi
Proceedings of Reactor Physics Paving the Way Towards More Efficient Systems (PHYSOR 2018) (USB Flash Drive), p.2929 - 2939, 2018/04
JAEA develops a new nuclear data processing system FRENDY. We investigated all processing methods and we focused on the probability table generation using the ladder method which is adopted in the PURR module in NJOY. To improve the probability table generation, the more sophisticated method was introduced in the calculation methods of the Chi-Squared random numbers and the complex error function. We also investigated the appropriate ladder number. To investigate the impact of the difference of the complex error function calculation method, the K
values of the benchmark experiments with the probability tables by the both methods were compared. The calculation results indicated that the appropriate ladder number is 100 and the difference of the calculation methods of the Chi-Squared random numbers and the complex error function has no significant impact on the neutronics calculation.
Tada, Kenichi; Kosako, Kazuaki*; Yokoyama, Kenji; Konno, Chikara
Nihon Genshiryoku Gakkai-Shi ATOMO
, 60(3), p.168 - 172, 2018/03
The neutronics calculation codes cannot treat the evaluated nuclear data file directly. The nuclear data processing is required to use the nuclear data file in the neutronics calculation codes. The nuclear data processing is not just a converter but also many processes to evaluate the physical values for the neutronics calculation codes. In this paper, we describe the overview of the nuclear data processing and validation of the nuclear data.
Tada, Kenichi; Nagaya, Yasunobu; Kunieda, Satoshi; Suyama, Kenya; Fukahori, Tokio
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 54(7), p.806 - 817, 2017/07
Times Cited Count：48 Percentile：98.52(Nuclear Science & Technology)JAEA has developed an evaluated nuclear data library JENDL and several nuclear analysis codes such as MARBLE2, SRAC, MVP and PHITS. Though JENDL and these computer codes have been widely used in many countries, the nuclear data processing system to generate the data library for application programs had not been developed in Japan and foreign nuclear data processing systems, e.g., NJOY and PREPRO are used. To process the new library for JAEA's computer codes immediately and independently, JAEA started to develop the new nuclear data processing system FRENDY in 2013. In this paper, outline, function, and verification of FRENDY are described.
Tada, Kenichi
Kaku Deta Nyusu (Internet), (113), p.7 - 23, 2016/02
This paper reports the IAEA's Consultants Meeting (CM) in Oct. 5-9, 2015. The title of the CM is "The New Evaluated Nuclear Data File Processing Capabilities".
Tada, Kenichi
Kaku Deta Nyusu (Internet), (113), p.41 - 45, 2016/02
Author prized the incentive award for nuclear data division, Atomic Energy Society of Japan in 2015. This report introduces the overview of the award-winning work.
