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19–22 Apr 2022
Vienna, Austria
Europe/Vienna timezone
FR22 starts in Vienna 19 - 22 April 2022 Online Stream: https://event.do/iaea/a/#/events/5048

Integral code COMPLEX for radiation safety assessment of reactor and nuclear fuel cycle facilities

22 Apr 2022, 13:30
2h
Vienna, Austria

Vienna, Austria

POSTER Track 6. Modelling, Simulations, and Digitilization Poster Session

Speaker

Mr Valerii Bereznev (Nuclear Safety Institute the of Russian Academy of Sciences)

Description

The computational code COMPLEX for radiation safety assessment of reactor and nuclear fuel cycle facilities is a set of programs (modules) combined by exchange data files and a pre- and post-processing system. The code is being developed in the "Codes of new generation" subproject of the "Proryv" project. The code includes the following modules:

  • reactor core calculation modules based on Monte Carlo method (MCU-FR), diffusion approximation (DOLCE VITA) and discrete ordinates method (CORNER);
  • nuclide kinetics module (BPSD);
  • radiation sources calculation module (RASTAS_M);
  • radiation shielding calculation modules based on Monte Carlo method (MCU-FR) and finite element method (ODETTA);
  • group constants system (CONSYST/ABBN-RF).

Almost all separate modules (except for RASTAS_M) are certified or are completing certification in Rostechnadzor.
The application area of the COMPLEX includes storage and transportation units for fresh and spent fuel assemblies, reactor core, reactor plant, NPP equipment and premises, closed nuclear fuel cycle facilities.
The calculating scenario of the COMPLEX code, in which all modules are used, consists of the following stages:

  1. At the first stage, the assembly campaign is simulated (fuel
    assembly, control rod or other core elements), the neutron flux is
    calculated;
  2. At the second stage, burnup calculations of the fuel, absorber and
    activation of structural materials are carried out; the call of the
    modules can be iterative (by burnup steps);
  3. At the third stage, the calculation of ionizing radiation sources is
    carried out for specific materials, assemblies or sets of assemblies;
  4. At the fourth stage, the neutron, gamma or coupled neutron-gamma
    transport problem is solved and the dose equivalent rate is
    calculated at the detection points.

Thus, due to a wide application area the code COMPLEX is an important and relevant tool for radiation safety assessment of liquid metal fast reactors and closed nuclear fuel cycle facilities

Speaker's title Mr
Speaker's email address bvp@ibrae.ac.ru
Country/Int. organization Russian Federation
Affiliation/Organization Nuclear Safety Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Primary authors

Mr Valerii Bereznev (Nuclear Safety Institute the of Russian Academy of Sciences) Alexander Belov (Nuclear Safety Institute the of Russian Academy of Sciences) Mr Dmitriy Koltashev (Nuclear Safety Institute the of Russian Academy of Sciences) Mr Vladimir Potapov (Nuclear Safety Institute the of Russian Academy of Sciences) Mr Karen Khachatrian (Nuclear Safety Institute the of Russian Academy of Sciences) Mr Alexei Shershov (Nuclear Safety Institute the of Russian Academy of Sciences) Mrs Galina Blokhina (Nuclear Safety Institute the of Russian Academy of Sciences) Ms Olga Chertovskikh

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