The benchmarks in WIMS-D Library Update Project (WLUP) (IAEA) are used to test the accuracy of NECP-Atlas. The calculated benchmarks are summarized in Table 1. In these problems, 64 nuclides are involved in the calculations, including 6 light nuclides, 48 nuclides appearing in cladding and 10 actinides. NECP-Atlas and NJOY2016 are respectively adopted to process different evaluations, and generate WIMS-D format libraries. The energy group structure is WIMS-D 69 group structure. DRAGON5 code is used to calculate the benchmarks.
In the generation of the libraries, the following function modules in NECP-Atlas are used: Recon_calc, Broad_calc, Unres_calc, Therm_calc, Group_calc and WIMS_outp. The differences of results calculated using the libraries generated by NECP-Atlas and NJOY2016. It can be concluded that the results calculated using libraries from NECP-Atlas agree well with those calculated using libraries from NJOY2016. For most of calculated cases, the absolute values of the difference are less than 50 pcm.
Table 1 The WLUP benchmarks used for the verification
Type of lattices |
Number of calculated benchmarks |
H2O moderated uranium oxide lattices |
48 |
H2O moderated uranium metal lattices |
64 |
H2O moderated uranium UO2-PuO2 (MOX) lattices |
40 |
D2O moderated 233UO2-ThO2 lattices |
8 |
H2O moderated 233UO2-ThO2 lattices |
8 |
H2O with boron moderated UO2 lattices |
25 |
Difference between NECP-Atlas and NJOY2016 based on WLUP benchmark