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In this study, a CANDU fuel bundle based on the Darlington Reactor in Canada is modeled. The
specific power of the bundle is 26.3 W/g.
The burnup sequence is modeled in the SAS6 code system
.
This system incorporates codes from the SCALE package, WIMSD, and ORIGEN-S. The selfshielding is
treated by the BONAMI and NITAWL routines from the SCALE package performing
Bondarenko treatment for the unresolved resonance range and Nordheim
treatment for the resolved resonance range.
The basic nuclear data are from the JEF2.2 nuclear data file
processed by NJOY.
The discharge burnup is determined by the criterion that to operate the reactor with sufficient margin, the time-averaged infinite multiplication factor
for the assembly should not be smaller than 1.05.
Last reviewed: 3 February 2012
