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Neutronic analysis of the European Sodium Fast Reactor: Part I - fresh core results

Fridman, E.; Álvarez-Velarde, F.; Romojaro-Otero, P.; Tsige-Tamirat, H.; Jiménez-Carrascosa, A.; García-Herranz, N.; Bernard, F.; Gregg, R.; Krepel, J.; Massara, S.; Poumerouly, S.; Girardi, E.; Mikityuk, K.

In the framework of the Horizon 2020 project ESFR-SMART (2017-2021), the European Sodium Fast Reactor (ESFR) core was updated through a safety-related modification and optimization of the core design from the earlier FP7 CP-ESFR project (2009-2013).

This study is dedicated to neutronic analyses of the improved ESFR core design. The conducted work is reported in two parts. Part I deals with the evaluation of the safety-related neutronic parameters of the fresh Beginning-of-Life (BOL) core carried out by 8 organizations using both continuous energy Monte Carlo and deterministic computer codes. In addition to the neutronics characterization of the core, a special emphasis was put on the calibration and verification of the computational tools involved in the analyses.

Part II is devoted to once-through and realistic batch-wise burnup calculations aiming at the establishing of the equilibrium core state, which will later serve as a basis for detailed safety analyses.

Keywords: ESFR; Safety; Horizon 2020

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