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On the use of WIMS-7 for calculations on accelerator-driven systems
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ECN
NUCLEAIR
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1998
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ECN-R--97-017
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Other
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27
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Abstract:
The WIMS-7 code package has successfully been applied for a simplebenchmark of a lead-cooled accelerator-driven system (ADS). With WIMS-7 it is
possible to model a fixed source and to calculate the multiplication in a
subcritical system. The calculations have shown that WIMS-7 is capable of
treating this benchmark of a homogenized lead-cooled system with a fast
neutron spectrum. The results described in this report are very promising and
stimulate further investigation of WIMS-7 to study ADS-applications and
lead-cooled reactor cores. It is useful to have a more extensive validation
of WIMS-7 for lead-cooled ADS. In this report we have only considered a
simple homogenized system. In the near future the application of WIMS-7 will
be twofold. First, WIMS-7 can be applied to calculate the neutron spectrum in
an accelerator-driven system in order to perform transmutation studies with a
burnup code. Second, WIMS-7 can be used to study in more detail the
neutronics of accelerator-driven systems. This is useful in order to learn
more about the physics of accelerator-driven systems. 6 refs.
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