EUROPEAN SODIUM FAST REACTOR (ESFR) - ORNL

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EUROPEAN SODIUM FAST REACTOR (ESFR) Antonio Jiménez-Carrascosa, Nuria García-Herranz Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain) 2020 SCALE Users’ Group Workshop: Best SCALE Model Contest | July 27-29, 2020 Fuel pin-cell Sub-assemblies Whole core 3600 MWt sodium cooled fast reactor SCALE6.2.3 version for rendering Heterogeneous 3D full core model created in the frame of the ESFR-SMART EU project Inner core (216 assemblies) and outer core (288 assemblies) 24 control and shutdown devices (CSD), 12 dedicated shutdown devices (DSD), 31 corium discharge tubes and axial sodium plenum followed by a neutron absorber Multi-batch core model containing 84 burnable regions

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EUROPEAN SODIUM FAST REACTOR (ESFR)Antonio Jiménez-Carrascosa, Nuria García-Herranz

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain)

2020 SCALE Users’ Group Workshop: Best SCALE Model Contest | July 27-29, 2020

Fuel pin-cell Sub-assemblies Whole core

3600 MWt sodium cooled fast reactor

SCALE6.2.3 version for rendering

Heterogeneous 3D full core modelcreated in the frame of the ESFR-SMARTEU project

Inner core (216 assemblies) and outer core (288 assemblies)

24 control and shutdown devices (CSD), 12 dedicated shutdowndevices (DSD), 31 corium discharge tubes and axial sodiumplenum followed by a neutron absorber

Multi-batch core model containing 84 burnable regions