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AREA RATIO METHOD USING DYNAMIC MODE DECOMPOSITION

Endo T., Nishioka F., Yamamoto A., Yamanaka M., Pyeon C.H.

Proceedings of the International Conference on Physics of Reactors, PHYSOR 2022 page： 3366 - 3375 2022

Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal) Publisher：Proceedings of the International Conference on Physics of Reactors, PHYSOR 2022

To reduce the higher mode effects on the subcriticality estimation using the pulsed neutron source without the aid of a high-fidelity neutron transport calculation, we propose a new area ratio method based on a data-driven approach using the dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) with the neutron count data measured by multiple neutron detectors. Thanks to eigenvalues and eigenvectors based on DMD, the fundamental mode of the prompt neutrons and the background component due to delayed neutrons are extracted from the measured neutron count data matrix. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated via experimental analysis for a pulsed neutron source measurement performed at Kyoto University Critical Assembly.

DOI： 10.13182/PHYSOR22-37184

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A New Approach for Resonance Treatment of Doubly Heterogeneous Fuel using the RSE method

Yamamoto A., Endo T., Takeda S., Koike H., Yamaji K., Ieyama K., Asano K.

Proceedings of the International Conference on Physics of Reactors, PHYSOR 2022 page： 2042 - 2051 2022

Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal) Publisher：Proceedings of the International Conference on Physics of Reactors, PHYSOR 2022

A new resonance calculation method for the doubly-heterogeneous (DH) fuels such as high-temperature gas-cooled reactor fuel is proposed based on the Resonance calculation based on Spectral Expansion (RSE) method. The concept of pointwise disadvantage factor for fuel grain is taken into account to treat the DH fuels. The verification calculation is carried out for simplified single fuel cell and fuel compact consisting of five fuel cells and graphite moderator. The calculation results indicate that the present method can appropriately handle the space-dependent self-shielding effect for DH fuels.

DOI： 10.13182/PHYSOR22-37251

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Adaptive setting of background cross sections for generation of effective multi-group cross sections in FRENDY nuclear data processing code

Yamamoto, A; Endo, T; Tada, K

JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Vol. 58 ( 12 ) page： 1343 - 1350 2021.12

Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal) Publisher：Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology

An adaptive setting method of background cross sections is implemented to FRENDY/MG, which is a multi-group neutron cross section generation module, for accurate interpolation of self-shielding factors with a minimum number of background cross sections. Since the dependence of self-shielding factors on background cross section is significantly different among energy group, reaction type, and nuclide, appropriate setting of background cross sections usually requires considerable works. In the present adaptive setting method, the range of background cross section is initially divided into 10 equal intervals and unnecessary background cross section points are eliminated. Then interpolation accuracy at each interval is tested. If the interpolation accuracy in an interval is not sufficient, the interval is successively halved until sufficient interpolation accuracy is obtained. For accurate interpolation of self-shielding factor or reaction rates, the monotone cubic interpolation is used. Verification calculations are carried out for all isotopes in JENDL-4.0. Calculation results indicate that the present method provides an appropriate set of background cross sections while satisfying input error tolerance for self-shielding factors or reaction rates. Typical numbers of background cross sections are from 10 to 25 when the monotone cubic interpolation and error tolerance of 0.01 for self-shielding factors are used.

DOI： 10.1080/00223131.2021.1944930

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Application of continuous Markov-chain Monte-Carlo method to multi-unit risk evaluations considering interdependence of accident progression among multiple units

Sawada, K; Yamamoto, A; Endo, T; Sato, C; Maeda, K; Jang, S

JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Vol. 58 ( 12 ) page： 1308 - 1317 2021.12

Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal) Publisher：Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology

The accident in Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plants reconfirms the necessity of the safety assessment considering multiple nuclear reactor units. However, consideration of the interdependency among safety systems or events in multiple units as well as the time dependency of accident progressions is difficult in the conventional event tree method, which is widely used in probabilistic risk assessments. Recently, the continuous Markov-chain Monte-Carlo (CMMC) method coupled with a plant safety analysis or a severe accident analysis code has been paid attention to address these issues. In the present study, the CMMC coupling method is applied to the risk assessment of multiple units to clarify the benefits and issues to be resolved of this method. Since the CMMC coupling method requires many executions of an accident analysis code, a meta-model that simplifies systems and physical phenomena in accidents is used in this study to reduce computational cost. Furthermore, the inverse transform sampling method is newly adapted. Numerical analyses of BWR accident under station blackout with loss of cooling capability are carried out considering the correlation among the availabilities of mitigation systems. The results suggested that the CMMC coupling method can quantitatively treat the interdependency and time dependency among events in multiple units.

DOI： 10.1080/00223131.2021.1940341

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Multi-group neutron cross section generation capability for FRENDY nuclear data processing code

Yamamoto, A; Tada, K; Chiba, G; Endo, T

JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Vol. 58 ( 11 ) page： 1165 - 1183 2021.11

Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal) Publisher：Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology

The multi-group cross-section generation capability for neutrons is implemented in the FRENDY nuclear data processing code. ACE-formatted files are used as the source of nuclear data instead of ENDF-formatted files since FRENDY already has the capability to generate pointwise cross sections in the ACE format. The several distinguished features are implemented for the multi-group generation capability, e.g. explicit consideration of resonance interference effect among nuclides, enhanced resonance treatment for various nuclear reactions, and accurate numerical integration of thermal cross sections. Verification calculations of the newly implemented capability are carried out through the comparison with the NJOY nuclear data processing code. Cross-section generations for all nuclides in JENDL-4.0, -4.0u, - (Formula presented.), ENDF/B-VII.1, -VIII.0, JEFF-3.3, and TENDL-2019 are carried out without unexpected processing issues, except for Pu-238 of TENDL-2019 that includes inconsistent data. The verification results indicate that the multi-group cross sections generated by FRENDY are consistent with those generated by NJOY. Now FRENDY can generate not only the pointwise cross sections for continuous energy Monte-Carlo codes but also the multi-group cross sections for deterministic neutronics analysis codes.

DOI： 10.1080/00223131.2021.1921631

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Proposal and applicability of estimated criticality lower-limit multiplication factor using the bootstrap method

Hayashi, T; Endo, T; Yamamoto, A

JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Vol. 58 ( 9 ) page： 1008 - 1017 2021.9

Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal) Publisher：Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology

To judge whether an application system is a subcritical state or not based on numerical results of the effective neutron multiplication factor (Formula presented.), an evaluation method of the estimated criticality lower-limit multiplication factor (ECLLMF) using the bootstrap method is newly proposed. By utilizing numerical results of (Formula presented.) for critical benchmark-problems that are selected depending on neutronic similarity to the application system, the ECLLMF should be carefully and conservatively estimated based on uncertainties of (Formula presented.) due to a criticality safety analysis code, experimental uncertainty, and covariance matrix of the nuclear data library. Furthermore, the frequency distribution of (Formula presented.) for these problems does not necessarily obey an ideal normal distribution. Using a resampling technique called ‘bootstrap method,’ the proposed method can reasonably estimate the ECLLMF considering the uncertainties and nuclear data-induced correlation between each critical benchmark-problem without the assumption of normality. To investigate the applicability of the proposed method, the approach-to-criticality experiment was carried out at the Kyoto University Critical Assembly (KUCA). Comparison of numerical results of (Formula presented.) and the ECLLMF using the bootstrap method indicated that the proposed method was able to judge an actual subcritical core as subcritical state.

DOI： 10.1080/00223131.2021.1902416

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A New Resonance Calculation Method Using Energy Expansion Based on a Reduced Order Model

Kondo, R; Endo, T; Yamamoto, A; Takeda, S; Koike, H; Yamaji, K; Sato, D

NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING Vol. 195 ( 7 ) page： 694 - 716 2021.7

Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal) Publisher：Nuclear Science and Engineering

A Resonance calculation using energy Spectrum Expansion (RSE) method is newly proposed in this paper. In this method, ultra-fine-group (UFG) spectra appearing in a resonance calculation are expanded by orthogonal bases on energy, which are extracted from the UFG spectra obtained in homogeneous geometry with various background cross sections using singular value decomposition and low-rank approximation. Namely, this method is based on the concept of a reduced order model. A neutron transport equation for flux moments (expansion coefficients) similar to the conventional one is derived and is numerically solved. This method applies to two benchmark problems in which a resonance interference effect and spatial self-shielding effect can appear. The results indicate that this method accurately predicts the reference effective cross sections and reaction rates obtained from direct UFG calculation in heterogeneous geometry.

DOI： 10.1080/00295639.2020.1863066

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Fast reproduction of time-dependent diffusion calculations using the reduced order model based on the proper orthogonal and singular value decompositions

Tsujita Kosuke, Endo Tomohiro, Yamamoto Akio

JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Vol. 58 ( 2 ) page： 173 - 183 2021.2

Evolutionary simulated annealing for fuel loading optimization of VVER-1000 reactor International coauthorship

Tran, VP; Phan, GTT; Hoang, VK; Ha, PNV; Yamamoto, A; Tran, HN

ANNALS OF NUCLEAR ENERGY Vol. 151 2021.2

Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal) Publisher：Annals of Nuclear Energy

An evolutionary simulated annealing (ESA) method has been developed for the problem of fuel loading optimization of VVER-1000 reactor. The ESA method improves original simulated annealing by using crossover and mutation operators to generate new trial loading patterns (LPs). A core physics calculation code for fuel LP optimization of VVER reactors (LPO-V) has been developed and verified based on a VVER-1000 MOX benchmark core in comparison with MCNP4c calculations. Calculations for optimizing fuel LP of the VVER-1000 MOX core have been conducted using the ESA method in comparison with simulated annealing (SA) and adaptive simulated annealing (ASA). Statistical differences between these methods were also evaluated based on the Mann–Whitney U test. The results show that the ESA method is advantageous over the SA and ASA.

DOI： 10.1016/j.anucene.2020.107938

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New method for visualizing the dose rate distribution around the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant using artificial neural networks Open Access

Sasaki, M; Sanada, Y; Katengeza, EW; Yamamoto, A

SCIENTIFIC REPORTS Vol. 11 ( 1 ) 2021.1

Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal) Publisher：Scientific Reports

This study proposes a new method of visualizing the ambient dose rate distribution using artificial neural networks (ANNs) from airborne radiation monitoring results. The method was applied to the results of the airborne radiation monitoring which was conducted around the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant by an unmanned aerial vehicle. Much of the survey data obtained in the past were used as the training data for building a network. The number of training cases was related to the error between the ground and converted values by the ANN. The quantitative evaluation index (the root-mean-square error) between the ANN-converted value and the ground-based survey result converged at 200 training cases. This number of training case was considered a rough criterion of the required number of training cases. The reliability of the ANN method was evaluated by comparison with the ground-based survey data. The dose rate map created by the ANNs method reproduced ground-based survey results better than traditional methods.

DOI： 10.1038/s41598-021-81546-4

Compression of Cross-Section Data Size for High-Resolution Core Analysis Using Dimensionality Reduction Technique

Yamamoto Masato, Endo Tomohiro, Yamamoto Akio

NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING Vol. 195 ( 1 ) page： 33 - 49 2021.1

Multi-group cross section library generation by FRENDY for fast reactor neutronics calculations

Chiba G., Yamamoto A., Tada K., Endo T.

Transactions of the American Nuclear Society Vol. 124 ( 1 ) page： 556 - 558 2021

Perturbation-theory-based sensitivity analysis of prompt neutron decay constant for water-only system

Endo T., Noguchi A., Yamamoto A., Tada K.

Transactions of the American Nuclear Society Vol. 124 ( 1 ) page： 184 - 187 2021

Verification of the multi-group generation capability of FRENDY nuclear data processing code for recent nuclear data through comparison of one-group reaction rates

Yamamoto A., Tada K., Chiba G., Endo T.

Transactions of the American Nuclear Society Vol. 124 ( 1 ) page： 544 - 547 2021

Application of Regionwise Even-Parity Discontinuity Factor to the Multigroup Analog Monte-Carlo Method

Oshima Y., Endo T., Yamamoto A., Aizawa N.

Transactions of the American Nuclear Society Vol. 125 ( 1 ) page： 904 - 907 2021

Verification of Medium-Wise Multi-Group Cross Section Calculation Capability of FRENDY/MG

Chiba G., Yamamoto A.

Transactions of the American Nuclear Society Vol. 125 ( 1 ) page： 934 - 937 2021

Dimension-reduced Nuclear Data Adjustment Method based on the Bayesian Monte-Carlo Method

Fukui Y., Endo T., Yamamoto A.

Transactions of the American Nuclear Society Vol. 125 ( 1 ) page： 900 - 903 2021

THEORETICAL DERIVATION OF UNIQUE COMBINATION-NUMBER FOR HIGHER ORDER NEUTRON CORRELATION FACTORS BASED ON PÁL-BELL EQUATION

Endo T., Yamamoto A.

Proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering, M and C 2021 page： 1568 - 1576 2021

Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal) Publisher：Proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering, M and C 2021

The Pál-Bell equation is a master equation to describe the probability generating function (PGF) of neutron counts in the neutron multiplication system. Thanks to the Pál-Bell equation with the two-forked and the fundamental mode approximations, an analytical solution of PGF of neutron counts in a source-driven subcritical system can be theoretically derived. Thereby, the unique combination numbers for the higher-order neutron-correlation factors for a near-critical state can be theoretically clarified. This knowledge is useful to judge whether a target system is a near-critical state or not using only a histogram (or factorial moments) of neutron counts.

DOI： 10.13182/M&C21-33627

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DEVELOPMENT OF ESTIMATION METHOD FOR PROMPT NEUTRON DECAY CONSTANT USING DYNAMIC MODE DECOMPOSITION

Nishioka F., Fukui Y., Endo T., Yamamoto A., Yamanaka M., Pyeon C.H.

Proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering, M and C 2021 page： 1719 - 1728 2021

To estimate the prompt neutron decay constant α corresponding to the fundamental mode in a subcritical system, we try applying the Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD) to time-series data of neutron counts obtained by the pulsed-neutron source (PNS) method. In this study, we newly develop an estimation method of α with the statistical uncertainty by the DMD and the random sampling method. The applicability of the proposed method is demonstrated by analyzing a PNS experiment carried out at the Kyoto University Critical Assembly (KUCA).

DOI： 10.13182/M&C21-33631

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FRENDY/MG: A MULTI-GROUP CROSS SECTION GENERATION MODULE USING ACE POINTWISE CROSS SECTIONS

Yamamoto A., Endo T., Foad B., Chiba G., Tada K.

Proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering, M and C 2021 page： 710 - 720 2021

A generation capability of neutron multi-group cross sections is being implemented to the FRENDY nuclear data processing code, as FRENDY/MG. FRENDY/MG generates neutron multi-group cross sections for deterministic core analysis codes considering an arbitrary energy group structure. Distinguished features of FRENDY/MG are 1) use of ACE pointwise cross sections as the source of nuclear data (no evaluated nuclear data file is directly used), 2) treatment of a compound material consisting of multiple nuclides to explicitly consider the resonance interference effect. Various verifications are being carried out through the comparison with the multi-group cross sections generated by NJOY.

DOI： 10.13182/M&C21-33679

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