On the use of different analytical solutions for recalculation of the YALINA-Booster experiment SC3A

The SC3A experiment in the YALINA-Booster facility in Belarus is described and investigated. For this investigation the very special configuration of YALINA-Booster core, consisting of a fast and a thermal zone, decoupled with a neutron ‘valve’ is analyzed in detail based on a full HELIOS model for the calculations. The two region design causes unexpected results in the experiments The special problems for the analysis of the experiments are shown. For an improved representation, a recently developed two group analytical solution for the time dependent diffusion equation obtained by Green’s function method without separation of space and time is used. To model the streaming of neutrons from the thermal area into the fast area an analytical solution for the space-time dependent neutron flux with two sources has been developed from the available Green’s functions for two groups. The space-time dependent thermal and fast neutron flux distributions are discussed. The new analytical solution shows very good agreement in the comparison with the experimental results, even for the unexpected behavior at the outermost detector. Thus analytical solutions without separation of space and time are a very promising tool to develop a new method for the analysis of ADS experiments