Development of nuclear data processing code FRENDY version 2

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.

Multi-group neutron cross section generation capability for FRENDY nuclear data processing code

Yamamoto, Akio*; Tada, Kenichi; Chiba, Go*; Endo, Tomohiro*

Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 58(11), p.1165 - 1183, 2021/11

https://doi.org/10.1080/00223131.2021.1921631

The multi-group cross section generation capability for neutrons is implemented in the FRENDY nuclear data processing code. ACE-formatted files are used as the source of nuclear data instead of ENDF-formatted files since FRENDY already has the capability to generate pointwise cross sections in the ACE format. Verification calculations of the newly implemented capability are carried out through the comparison with the NJOY nuclear data processing code. Cross section generations for all nuclides in JENDL-4.0, -4.0u, -54, ENDF/B-VII.1, -VIII.0, JEFF-3.3, and TENDL-2019 are carried out without unexpected processing issue, except for Pu-238 of TENDL-2019 that includes inconsistent data. The verification results indicate that the multi-group cross sections generated by FRENDY are consistent with those generated by NJOY or the calculation results by MCNP.

Nuclear data processing code FRENDY

Tada, Kenichi

JAEA-Conf 2019-001, p.29 - 34, 2019/11

https://doi.org/10.11484/jaea-conf-2019-001

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.

Improvement of probability table generation using ladder method for a new nuclear data processing system 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.

Burn-up characteristics and criticality effect of impurities in the graphite structure of a commercial-scale prismatic HTGR

Fukaya, Yuji; Goto, Minoru; Nishihara, Tetsuo

Nuclear Engineering and Design, 326, p.108 - 113, 2018/01

AA2015-0964.pdf:0.64MB

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nucengdes.2017.11.003

Burn-up characteristics and criticality of impurity contained into graphite structure for commercial scale prismatic High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor (HTGR) have been investigated. For HTGR, of which the core is filled graphite structure, the impurity contained into the graphite has unignorable poison effect for criticality. Then, GTHTR300, commercial scale HTGR, employed high grade graphite material named IG-110 to take into account the criticality effect for the reflector blocks next to fuel blocks. The fuel blocks, which should also employ IG-110, employ lower grade graphite material named IG-11 from the economic perspective. In this study, the necessity of high grade graphite material for commercial scale HTGR is reconsidered by evaluating the burn-up characteristics and criticality of the impurity. The poison effect of the impurity, which is used to be expressed by a boron equivalent, reduces exponentially like burn-up of B, and saturate at a level of 1 % of the initial value of boron equivalent. On the other hand, the criticality effect of the boron equivalent of 0.03 ppm, which corresponds to a level of 1 % of IG-11 shows ignorable values lower than 0.01 %k/kk' for both of fuel blocks and reflector blocks. The impurity can be represented by natural boron without problem. Therefore, the poison effect of the impurity is evaluated with whole core burn-up calculations. As a result, it is concluded that the impurity is not problematic from the viewpoint of criticality for commercial scale HTGR because it is burned clearly until End of Cycle (EOC) even with the low grade graphite material of IG-11. According to this result, more economic electricity generation with HTGR is expected by abolishing the utilization of IG-110.

Report on the IAEC Consultants Meeting "The New Evaluated Nuclear Data File Processing Capabilities"

Tada, Kenichi

Kaku Deta Nyusu (Internet), (113), p.7 - 23, 2016/02

http://www.aesj.or.jp/~ndd/ndnews/pdf113/No113-02.pdf

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".

DPA Calculation in Japanese Spallation Neutron Source

Harada, Masahide; Watanabe, Noboru; Konno, Chikara; Meigo, Shinichiro; Ikeda, Yujiro; Niita, Koji*

Journal of Nuclear Materials, 343(1-3), p.197 - 204, 2005/06

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2005.01.023

For a construction of maintenance and storage scenarios for JSNS, lives of structure material need to be estimated. DPA (Displacement per Atom) was a major index of radiation damage. So we evaluated DPA value of each component. Function of the DPA calculation was equipped to the PHITS code, which was particle and heavy ion transport code. For DPA calculation, displacement cross section was necessary. Displacement cross sections of neutron below 150 MeV were processed by the NJOY code from LA150 library and those of neutron above 150MeV and proton in the all energy region were obtained from energies of fragments calculated in the PHITS. By using the PHITS, we calculated DPA values and DPA mapping. We obtained that the peak DPA values at end of 5000MWh operation were 4.1 for target vessel, 2.8 for reflector and moderator vessels, and 0.4 for proton beam windows, respectively. We estimated the target life at 1 year and the moderator life at 6 year.

MATXS files processed from JENDL-3.2 and -3.3 for shielding

Konno, Chikara; Ikeda, Yujiro

Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 39(Suppl.2), p.1037 - 1040, 2002/08

http://wwwndc.jaea.go.jp/nd2001/proc/pdf/2_1037.pdf

no abstracts in English

Development of automatic editing system for MCNP library "autonj"

Maekawa, Fujio; Sakurai, Kiyoshi; Kosako, Kazuaki*; Kume, Etsuo; Kawasaki, Nobuo*; Nomura, Yasushi; Naito, Yoshitaka*

JAERI-Data/Code 99-048, p.52 - 0, 1999/12

JAERI-Data-Code-99-048.pdf:2.34MB

no abstracts in English

Vectorization, parallelization and porting of nuclear codes on the VPP500 system, porting; Progress report fiscal 1996

*; *; *; *; *; *; Harada, Hiro; ; Kume, Etsuo;

JAERI-Data/Code 97-055, 161 Pages, 1998/01

JAERI-Data-Code-97-055.pdf:4.57MB

no abstracts in English