Benchmark calculations for the starter FENDL-3.0 general purpose neutron library with impact on ITER analysis

Author

Sawan, M.E. ; Walker, B.J.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA

fYear

2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

A starter library of FENDL-3.0 was released in 2012 as an update for the current reference library FENDL-2.1. We carried out calculations using the ITER computational benchmark that was used previously for validation and testing of earlier versions of FENDL. Results for flux, heating, dpa, and gas production were obtained with FENDL-3.0 and compared to the results with FENDL-2.1. The results indicate that using FENDL-3.0 yields higher and harder neutron flux in components that are heavily shielded by water-cooled steel, such as the vacuum vessel and magnet, compared to FENDL-2.1. This is reflected in increased nuclear parameters in the vacuum vessel and magnets.

Keywords

Tokamak devices; fusion reactor design; fusion reactor materials; nuclear engineering computing; plasma toroidal confinement; FENDL-3.0 general purpose neutron library; ITER analysis; ITER computational benchmark; nuclear parameters; vacuum vessel; water-cooled steel; Heating; Libraries; Magnetic flux; Magnetic noise; Magnetic shielding; Neutrons; Production; ITER; flux; gas production; nuclear data; nuclear heating; radiation damage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Fusion Engineering (SOFE), 2013 IEEE 25th Symposium on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0169-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SOFE.2013.6635309

Filename

6635309