• Journal of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology(JNFCWT)
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.21-34
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• 2015

Source term analysis should be carried out to prepare the decommissioning of the nuclear power plant. In the planning phase of decommissioning, the classification of decommissioning wastes and the cost evaluation are performed based on the results of source term analysis. In this study, the verification of MCNP/ORIGEN-2 model is carried out for preliminary source term calculation for Wolsung Unit 1. The inventories of actinide nuclides and fission products in fuel bundles with different burn-up were obtained by the depletion calculation of MCNPX code modelling the single channel. Two factors affecting the accuracy of source terms were investigated. First, the neutron spectrum effect on neutron induced activation calculation was reflected in one-group microscopic cross-sections of relevant radio-isotopes using the results of MCNP simulation, and the activation source terms calculated by ORIGEN-2 using the neutron spectrum corrected library were compared with the results of the original ORIGEN-2 library (CANDUNAU.LIB) in ORIGEN-2 code package. Second, operation history effect on activation calculation was also investigated. The source terms on both pressure tubes and calandria tubes replaced in 2010 and calandria tank were evaluated using MCNP/ORIGEN-2 with the neutron spectrum corrected library if the decommissioning wastes can be classified as a low level waste.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1997.10a
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• pp.70-75
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• 1997

A CASMO/ORIGEN coupling utility program was developed to predict the composition of all the fission products in spent PWR fuels. The coupling program reads the CASMO output file, modifies the ORIGEN cross section library and reconstructs the ORIGEN input file at each depletion step. In ORIGEN, the burnup equation is solved for actinides and fission products based on the fission reaction rates and depletion flux of CASMO. A sample calculation has been performed using a 14$\times$14 PWR fuel assembly and the results are given in this paper.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.1-13
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• 1992

A one-group cross section data base of the ORIGEN2 computer code was developed for research reactor applications. For this, ENDF/B-IV and -V data were processed using the NJOY code system into 69-group data. The burnup-dependent weighting spectra for KMRR were calculated with the WIMS-KAERI computer code, and then the 69-group data were collapsed to one-group using the spectra. The ORIGEN2-predicted burnup-dependent acti-nide compositions of KMRR spent fuel using the newly developed data base show a good agreement with the results of detailed multigroup transport calculation. In addition, the burnup characteristics of KMRR spent fuel was analyzed with the new data base.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.47 no.5
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• pp.596-607
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• 2015

In this paper, we describe a computer program, iBEST (inverse Burnup ESTimator), that we developed to accurately estimate the burnup histories of spent nuclear fuels based on sample measurement data. The burnup history parameters include initial uranium enrichment, burnup, cooling time after discharge from reactor, and reactor type. The program uses algebraic equations derived using the simplified burnup chains of major actinides for initial estimations of burnup and uranium enrichment, and it uses the ORIGEN-S code to correct its initial estimations for improved accuracy. In addition, we newly developed a stable bisection method coupled with ORIGEN-S to correct burnup and enrichment values and implemented it in iBEST in order to fully take advantage of the new capabilities of ORIGEN-S for improving accuracy. The iBEST program was tested using several problems for verification and well-known realistic problems with measurement data from spent fuel samples from the Mihama-3 reactor for validation. The test results show that iBEST accurately estimates the burnup history parameters for the test problems and gives an acceptable level of accuracy for the realistic Mihama-3 problems.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1998.05a
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• pp.143-148
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• 1998

LCS와 ORIGEN2의 연결 프로그램 MONO를 개발하여 연소시간에 따른 가속기미임계로의 핵특성 변화를 분석할 있는 LCS-MONO-ORIGEN2 코드시스템을 구축하였다. 몇 가지 타입의 미임계로를 대상으로 LCS-MONORIGEN2 코드시스템의 성능시험을 수행하였다. 용융염 핵연료 및 집합체형 핵연료 미임계로에 대한 계산은 문제없이 수행되었다 또한 토륨/우라늄-233 핵연료 미임계로에 대한 연소시간에 따른 Keff 변화는 외국기관의 계산결과와 유사하게 나타났다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.415-415
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• 2001

• Proceedings of the Korean Radioactive Waste Society Conference
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.299-301
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• 2005

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.301-302
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• 2005

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.393.2-393
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• 2002

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.194-194
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• 2002