Benchmark Activities on Reactor Single- and Multi-Physics of the Working Party on Scientific Issues and Uncertainty Analysis of Reactor Systems (WPRS)
Ongoing Reactor Single- and Multi-Physics Benchmark Activities

Scope

The Working Party on Scientific Issues and Uncertainty Analysis of Reactor Systems (WPRS)  and its Expert Groups co-ordinate benchmark activities on reactor single- and multi-physics. The benchmark activities serve the WPRS objectives: 

  • to provide members with up-to-date information, preserve knowledge on, and develop consensus regarding reactor physics, thermal-hydraulics, radiation transport and dosimetry, and multi-physics aspects associated with nuclear power systems, aimed at providing the technical underpinnings of assessment of system performance and safety.
  • to provide advice to the nuclear community on the developments needed to meet the requirements (data and methods, validation experiments, scenario studies) for the assessment of different reactor systemsprovide training and educational material to the nuclear community, to assist with developing future technical expertise within member countries. Workshops will be held on WPRS benchmarks.
  • to provide training and educational material to the nuclear community, to assist with developing future technical expertise within member countries. 

 The activities address the the following reactor types:

  • Current fleet of light-water and heavy water reactors (LWRs/HWRs) as well as present generation of fuel designs.
  • Evolutionary and innovative LWRs/HWRs along with advanced and/or accident tolerant fuel designs.
  • Next generation of reactor systems including water cooled small modular reactors (SMRs), micro-reactors, high temperature gas cooled reactors (HTGR) as well as advanced fast spectrum systems including sodium fast reactors (SFRs) and molten salt reactor systems (MSRs).
  • Accelerator driven (sub-critical) and critical systems for waste transmutation as well as fusion systems.

Annual Benchmarks Workshop

The WPRS organises an annual WPRS Benchmarks Workshop (typically 1 week with 2 parallel tracks) in which the benchmark teams exchange on the status of their simulations and discuss benchmark specification updates. 

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Overview of WPRS Benchmark Activities

The table below shows all ongoing and completed benchmarks under the WPRS guidance. Please follow the links to learn more about options to acccess the data and to participate in ongoing activities.

Benchmark Title Reactor Type Benchmark Type Status

AI and Machine Learning Benchmarks by the EGMUP Task Force on AI and Machine Learning 

Generic AI & ML

Ongoing

Benchmark on Deterministic Transport
Calculations without Spatial Homogenisation - 
A 2-D/3-D MOX Fuel Assembly Benchmark (C5G7)
PWR Neutronics

Published:document, appendices

Benchmark on Pu Burner Fast Reactor FR Neutronics Published via NEA DB
Benchmarks on Pu recyling  PWR; FR Neutronics Published via NEA DB
BFBT: NEA/NRC Benchmark based on NUPEC BWR Full-size Fine-mesh Bundle Tests (BFBT) BWR Thermalhydraulics; Coupled Neutronics/Thermal-hydraulics Published via NEA DB
Benchmark on Burst Fission Gas Release   Fuel Performance Ongoing
BWR-TT: Boiling Water Reactor Turbine Trip  BWR Coupled Neutronics/Thermal-hydraulics Published via NEA DB
C5G7-TD: The Deterministic Time-Dependent Neutron Transport Benchmark C5G7-TD without Spatial Homogenisation PWR Neutronics; Multiphysics Ongoing
CTH: McMaster CANDU TH CANDU Thermalhydraulics Finalized, final report in draft state
FHR: Fluoride-salt-cooled High temperature Reactor MSR Neutronics Ongoing
Forsmark 1&2 BWR Stability Benchmark BWR Coupled Neutronics/Thermal-hydraulics Published via NEA DB
HTGR T/H Benchmark  HTGR Thermalhydraulics Ongoing
KALININ-3 Coolant Transient Benchmark  VVER Coupled Neutronics/Thermal-hydraulics; Neutronics; Thermalhydraulics; Multiphysics Published via NEA DB
LFR Benchmark: Lead-cooled Fast Reactor Benchmark LMFR Neutronics Ongoing
LMFR T/H: Liquid Metal Fast Reactor Core Thermal-Hydraulics Benchmark (LMFR T/H) LMFR Thermalhydraulics Ongoing
MHTGR-350: Benchmark of the Modular High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor-350 MW Core Design HTGR Neutronics Completed
MOX/UO2 Transient: Pressurised Water Reactor MOX/UO2 Core Transient Benchmark PWR Neutronics Published via NEA DB
MPCMIV: Multi-physics Pellet Cladding Mechanical Interaction Validation Test reactor Multiphysics Ongoing
MSLB: Pressurised Water Reactor Main Steam-Line Break  Benchmark PWR Coupled Neutronics/Thermal-hydraulics Published via NEA DB
O2: Oskarshamn-2 (O2) BWR Stability Benchmark BWR Neutronics; Thermalhydraulics; Multiphysics Ongoing
PBMR: Coupled Neutronics/Thermal-hydraulics Transients Benchmark - The PBMR-400 Core Design HTGR Coupled Neutronics/Thermal-hydraulics Published via NEA DB
PCMI: Pellet Cladding Mechanical Interaction Benchmark PWR; BWR Fuel Performance Ongoing
PSBT: International Benchmark on Pressurised Water Reactor Sub-channel and Bundle Tests  PWR Thermalhydraulics Published via NEA DB
Ringhals-1&2 Stability Benchmark BWR Coupled Neutronics/Thermal-hydraulics Published via NEA DB
ROSTOV-2: Benchmark on reactivity compensation of boron dilution by stepwise insertion of control rod cluster into the VVER-1000 core VVER Neutronics; Thermalhydraulics; Multiphysics Ongoing
TVA Watts Bar Unit-1 Multi-Physics Benchmark PWR Neutronics; Thermalhydraulics; Multiphysics Ongoing
UAM LWR: Benchmark for Uncertainty Analysis in Best-Estimate Modelling for Design, Operation and Safety Analysis of Light Water Reactors (LWR-UAM) PWR; BWR; VVER Neutronics; Multiphysics; Fuel Performance; Thermalhydraulics Ongoing
UAM SFR - Subgroup on Uncertainty Analysis in Modelling (UAM) for Design, Operation and Safety Analysis of Sodium-cooled Fast Reactors (SFR-UAM) LMFR Fuel Performance; Multiphysics; Neutronics; Thermalhydraulics Ongoing
V1000CT -VVER-1000 Coolant Transient benchmark VVER Coupled Neutronics/Thermal-hydraulics; Neutronics; Thermalhydraulics Published via NEA DB

 

Working Area

Working area  for benchmark participants: MyNEA (password protected)

Contact

WPRS Secretariat: Oliver Buss 

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