Molten Salt Reactor Experiment Simulation using Shift/Griffin

Hartanto, Donny; Davidson, Eva; Godfrey, Ashley; Cao, Yan; Fei, Tingzhou; Tano-Retamales, Mauricio

doi:10.2172/1997706

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“…The MSRE benchmark has since been modeled in SCALE (Barlow and Clarno, 2020;Bostelmann et al, 2022), MCNP (Clarno et al, 2023), and independently for Serpent (Clarno et al, 2023). Simplified MSRE models have also been created for VERA (Graham et al, 2021) and Shift/Serpent/OpenMC (Hartanto et al, 2023).…”

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CAD and constructive solid geometry modeling of the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment with OpenMC

Yilmaz,

Romano,

Chierici

et al. 2024

Front. Nucl. Eng.

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In this study, we present a detailed comparison of two independently developed models of the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE) for Monte Carlo particle transport simulations: the constructive solid geometry (CSG) model that was developed in support of the MSRE benchmark in the International Handbook of Evaluated Reactor Physics Benchmark Experiments, and a CAD model that was developed by Copenhagen Atomics. The original Serpent reference CSG model was first converted to OpenMC’s input format so that it could be systematically compared to the CAD model, which was already available as an OpenMC model, using the same Monte Carlo code. Results from simulations using the Serpent and OpenMC CSG models showed that keff agreed within 10 pcm while the flux distribution in space and energy generally agreed within 0.1%. Larger differences were observed between the OpenMC CAD and CSG models; notably, the keff computed for the CAD model was 1.00872, which is more than 1% lower than the value for the CSG model and much closer to experiment. Several areas of the reactor that were modeled differently in the CSG and CAD models were discussed and, in several cases, their impact on keff was quantified. Lastly, we compared the computational performance and memory usage between the CAD and CSG models. Simulation of the CSG model was found to be 1.4–2.3× faster than simulation of the CAD model based on the Embree ray tracer while using 4× less memory, highlighting the need for continued improvements in the CAD-based particle transport ecosystem. Finally, major performance degradation was observed for CAD-based simulations when using the MOAB ray tracer.

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