Author(s)

Willian Vieira de Abreu¹, Alessandro da Cruz Gonçalves², Zelmo Rodrigues de Lima^1*

¹Nuclear Engineering Institute, National Commission for Nuclear Energy, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
²Nuclear Engineering Program, COPPE, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro/UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The main purpose of this paper is to perform a numerical analysis of the Neutron Spatial Kinetic Equations, subject to transients of the External Neutron Source, by applying the Implicit Euler Method as well as the Runge-Kutta Method in order to check which methods are best applicable in transients caused by External Neutron Source. For this purpose, a one-dimensional ADS reactor with a constant external source was simulated based on the geometry of ANL-BSS-6 reactor for benchmark effects.

ADS, Transients, Spatial Kinetics

de Abreu, W. , Gonçalves, A. and de Lima, Z. (2017) Numerical Analysis for Transients in External Source Driven Reactors. World Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 7, 103-120. doi: 10.4236/wjnst.2017.72009.