Nuclear data uncertainty for criticality-safety: Monte Carlo vs. linear perturbation

Rochman, D.Paul Scherrer Inst, Reactor Phys & Syst Behav Lab, Villigen, Switzerland. (författare)

Nuclear data uncertainty for criticality-safety : Monte Carlo vs. linear perturbation

This work is presenting a comparison of results for different methods of uncertainty propagation due to nuclear data for 330 criticality-safety benchmarks. Covariance information is propagated to key using either Monte Carlo methods (NUSS: based on existing nuclear data covariances, and TMC: based on reaction model parameters) or sensitivity calculations from MCNP6 coupled with nuclear data covariances. We are showing that all three methods are globally equivalent for criticality calculations considering the two first moments of a distribution (average and standard deviation), but the Monte Carlo methods lead to actual probability distributions, where the third moment (skewness) should not be ignored for safety assessments.

Vasiliev, A.Paul Scherrer Inst, Reactor Phys & Syst Behav Lab, Villigen, Switzerland. (författare)
Ferroukhi, H.Paul Scherrer Inst, Reactor Phys & Syst Behav Lab, Villigen, Switzerland. (författare)
Zhu, T.Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL USA. (författare)
van der Marck, S. C.Nucl Res & Consultancy Grp NRG, Petten, Netherlands. (författare)
Koning, Arjan J.Uppsala universitet,Tillämpad kärnfysik,IAEA, Nucl Data Sect, A-1400 Vienna, Austria(Swepub:uu)arjko970 (författare)
Paul Scherrer Inst, Reactor Phys & Syst Behav Lab, Villigen, Switzerland.Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL USA. (creator_code:org_t)

Av författaren/redakt...: Rochman, D.; Vasiliev, A.; Ferroukhi, H.; Zhu, T.; van der Marck, S ...; Koning, Arjan J.

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