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Ow Hermann, Mc Brady, Sm Bowman, Cv Parks

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• cours magistral - matière potentielle : microeconometrics

Microeconometrics Lecture 9 - Evaluation Methods Jean-Marc Robin Sciences-Po January 3, 2012 JM Robin (Sciences-Po) Evaluation January 3, 2012 1 / 40

• effect of indirect taxes on demand
• effect of price cap regulation on consumer welfare
• effect of education on wages
• feature of the distribution of the heterogeneous effect
• feature of a reference population
• counterfactual values of the outcome variable
• effect
• normal distribution
• population
• treatment

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• Effect
• Régulation
• Feature
• Population
• Variable
• Treatment
• Référence
• Distribution

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• Nombre de lectures: 21
• Langue: English

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ORNL/TM-12667
for PWR Spent Fuel Isotopic
C. V. Parks
M. C. Brady
S. M. Bowman
O. W. Hermann
Composition Analyses
Validation of the SCALE System,
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VALIDATION OF THE SCALE SYSTEM FOR PWR SPENT
FUEL ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION ANALYSES
O. W. Hermann
S. M. Bowman
*M. C. Brady
C. V. Parks

* Sandia National Laboratories, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Date Published: March 1995
Prepared jointly for
Sandia National Laboratories
under subcontract AD-4072 with Oak Ridge National Laboratory
and TRW Environmental Safety Systems
under subcontract AT7708RT3X
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Prepared by the
OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY
managed by
MARTIN MARIETTA ENERGY SYSTEMS, INC.
for the
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
under contract DE-AC05-84OR21400CONTENTS
Page
LIST OF FIGURES ................................................ v
LIST OF TABLES vi
ABSTRACT .................................................... xi
1. INTRODUCTION ............................................... 1
2. MODEL AND METHODS IN SAS2H ................................. 3
2.1 BACKGROUND .......................................... 3
2.2 MODULES AND DATA .................................... 4
2.3 METHOD AND TECHNIQUES ............................... 5
2.3.1 Neutronics Models .................................. 5
2.3.2 Burnup-Dependent Cross Sections ........................ 7
2.3.3 Final Depletion and Decay Analysis ....................... 10
2.4 INPUT FEATURES ....................................... 10
2.5 HEAT GENERATION VALIDATION ........................... 11
3. PWR FUEL ASSEMBLY DATA FOR PROBLEMS ANALYZED ............... 12
3.1 CALVERT CLIFFS PWR SPENT FUEL DESIGN AND
OPERATING DATA ..................................... 12
3.2 H. B. ROBINSON PWR SPENT FUEL DESIGN AND 23
3.3 OBRIGHEIM PWR SPENT FUEL DESIGN AND
OPERATING DATA 29
3.4 ADDITIONAL PWR DATA USED FOR SCALE SYSTEM INPUT ........ 29
4. PREDICTED AND MEASURED ISOTOPIC COMPOSITIONS ................. 38
4.1 CALVERT CLIFFS PWR ANALYSES ........................... 38
4.2 H. B. ROBINSON PWR ANALYSES ............................ 38
4.3 OBRIGHEIM PWR ANALYSES ............................... 38
5. SUMMARY AND DISCUSSION OF RESULTS .......................... 51
5.1 SUMMARY OF THE RESULTS .............................. 51
5.2 BASIS FOR DISCUSSION .................................. 51
5.3 ACTINIDE NUCLIDE RESULTS ............................. 63
5.4 FISSION-PRODUCT RESULTS 64
5.5 COMPARISON OF MEASURED VS PREDICTED DIFFERENCES
WITH EXPERIMENTAL UNCERTAINTIES ................... 70
6. GENERAL SUMMARY .......................................... 72
6.1 SUMMARY OF THE BENCHMARK COMPARISONS ................ 72
6.2 CONCLUSIONS 73
REFERENCES .................................................. 75
iiiAPPENDIX A. SAS2H INPUT FILES FOR CALVERT CLIFFS,
H. B. ROBINSON, AND OBRIGHEIM FUEL ASSEMBLIES ............... 79
APPENDIX B. COMPARISONS OF MEASURED ISOTOPIC DATA TO
SAS2H CALCULATIONS ..................................... 101
APPENDIX C. INDIVIDUAL LABORATORY OBRIGHEIM FUEL ISOTOPIC
MEASUREMENTS, AVERAGES, AND 1 F IN ESTIMATE OF AVERAGES ... 119
APPENDIX D. STATISTICAL DATA ANALYSIS OF SAS2H PREDICTIONS
VS MEASUREMENTS ....................................... 125
APPENDIX E. MISCELLANEOUS SPATIAL FACTORS AFFECTING
ASSEMBLY AVERAGED RESULTS .............................. 129
239E.1. RADIAL VARIATION IN Pu 129
239E.2. AXIAL VARIATION IN Pu ............................... 135
239 235E.3. SECONDARY EFFECTS OF VARIATION IN Pu ON U .......... 138
ivLIST OF FIGURES
Figure Page
1. Flow path invoked by SAS2H sequences. ............................... 6
2. Examples of larger unit cell for the model used in the path-B portion of SAS2H. ..... 8
3. Schematic of successive ORIGEN-S cases used to produce the burnup-dependent
number densities for a SAS2H case with two libraries per cycle ................ 9
4. Example of fuel depletion SAS2 input. ................................ 11
5. Location of Fuel Rod MKP109 in Assembly D047 ......................... 16
6. Location of Fuel Rod MLA098 in Assembly D101 ........................ 17
7. Location of Fuel Rod NBD107 in Assembly BT03 18
8. Location of Fuel Rod N-9 in diagram of Assembly B05
coupled with burnable poison fixture .................................. 26
9. Fuel temperature versus rod power for Obrigheim 28
10. SAS2H "path-B" model for Calvert Cliffs fuel assemblies .................... 34
11. Range in calculated vs measured isotopic differences for 19 cases
(27BURNUPLIB cross-section data) 52
12. Range in calculated vs measured isotopic differences for 10 assembly
averages (27BURNUPLIB cross-section data) ............................ 53
13. Range in calculated vs measured isotopic differences for 13 pellet sample
cases (44GROUPNDF5 cross-section data) .............................. 56
14. Range in calculated vs measured isotopic differences for 6 Obrigheim
assemblies (44GROUPNDF5 cross-section data) .......................... 57
15515. ENDF/B Versions V and VI (n,() cross sections of Eu at
low neutron energies ........................................... 66
15516.(Eu in a significant part
of resonance region ............................................ 67
E.1. Method of simulating the actual rod locations (a) in unit cell (b) to obtain
N and N .................................................. 1311 2
vLIST OF TABLES
Table Page
1. List of fuel nuclides automatically included by SAS2 for inclusion in
neutronics processing ........................................... 9
2. Basic parameters of the measured spent fuel ............................. 13
3. Calvert Cliffs general fuel assembly design data .......................... 14
4. Fuel composition of Calvert Cliffs fuel assemblies ......................... 15
5. Power histories and boron concentrations Fuel Assembly D047 Rod MKP109 ....... 20
6. Operating data for Calvert Cliffs Assembly D047, Rod MKP109, Assembly
D101, Rod MLA098, and Assembly BT03, Rod NBD107 .................... 22
7. Moderator conditions and effective fuel temperatures for Calvert
Cliffs 1 PWR ................................................. 24
8. Design data for H. B. Robinson Fuel Assembly B05 ....................... 25
9. Operating data for H. B. Robinson Assembly B05, Rod N-9 pellet samples ......... 27
10. Moderator conditions and effective fuel temperatures for H. B. Robinson
Unit 2 PWR 27
11. Borosilicate glass composition in BP assemblies .......................... 30
12. Borosilicate glass input atom densities ................................. 30
13. Design data for the analyzed Obrigheim fuel assemblies ..................... 31
14. Power history of Obrigheim fuel assemblies 168, 170, 171, 172, and 176 .......... 32
15. Operating data for the Obrigheim fuel assemblies and dissolved fuel batches ........ 33
16. Light-element mass per unit of fuel for SAS2H input ....................... 36
17. Effective parameters of the 21 nonfuel positions—20 guide tubes
(12 with BPRs) and 1 instrument tube 36
18. Fuel, fuel activation, fission product, and light-element nuclides for which
cross sections were updated in SAS2H cases ............................. 37
19. Measured irradiated composition, in g/g UO , of Calvert Cliffs 2
Assembly D047 Rod MKP109 ...................................... 39
20.2
Assembly D101 Rod MLA098 ..................................... 40
21. Measured irradiation composition, in g/g UO , of Calvert Cliffs 2
Assembly BT03 Rod NBD107 40
22. Measured irradiation composition, in Ci/g UO2
Assembly D047 Rod MKP109 41
23. , of Calvert Cliffs 2
Assembly D101 Rod MLA098 41
24.2
Assembly BT03 Rod NBD107 ...................................... 42
25. Percentag