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Argonne’s METL gears up to test more sodium fast reactor components
Argonne National Laboratory has successfully swapped out an aging cold trap in the sodium test loop called METL (Mechanisms Engineering Test Loop), the Department of Energy announced April 23. The upgrade is the first of its kind in the United States in more than 30 years, according to the DOE, and will help test components and operations for the sodium-cooled fast reactors being developed now.
A. Alhajri, V. Sobes, P. Ducru, B. Ganapol, B. Forget
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 195 | Number 8 | August 2021 | Pages 813-824
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2021.1898923
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A benchmark to verify the accuracy of neutron transport criticality solvers along the energy dimension was established. For the first time, the analytic solution of the flux amplitude was derived in the particular case of an infinite-homogeneous medium with isotropic scattering in the center of mass and an arbitrary number of no-threshold, neutral particle reaction resonances (e.g., radiative capture, fission, and resonance scattering). In this paper, the benchmark is extended to the adjoint transport problem, and a solution to the adjoint flux is derived. The adjoint flux solution is then combined with the forward flux to obtain expressions for an arbitrary-order cross section and resonance parameter sensitivity coefficients. Finally, numerical solutions are provided for a benchmark problem constituted of the first resonance of 239Pu, the 6.67-eV resonance of 238U, and a scattering isotope with a flat cross section, allowing for computational verification of the sensitivity coefficients and nuclear data uncertainty of current neutron transport criticality codes. Through these novel results, this analytic benchmark can serve as a reference to verify the sensitivity analysis of neutron transport criticality calculations.