@inproceedings{d98b64544e784ffd82ef381ed02021d4,
title = "NEUTRONICS SIMULATION OF THE MOLTEN SALT REACTOR EXPERIMENT WITH SCALE/SHIFT AND SERPENT/PARCS",
abstract = "The Monte Carlo code Serpent 2 was used to generate homogenized few-group constants for the nodal diffusion analysis of the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE) zero-power criticality benchmark. A 3D full core model of MSRE was built with Serpent 2 and SCALE/Shift. A good agreement was achieved for the multiplication factor between Serpent 2, SCALE/Shift and the benchmark reference result, demonstrating the consistency between the models. The nodal diffusion analysis of a 3D graphite core model of MSRE was performed with the few-group constants generated by Serpent 2 using nodal diffusion code PARCS. A good agreement between Serpent 2 and PARCS was observed demonstrating the feasibility of using Serpent 2 as a few-group constant generator and using PARCS as a nodal diffusion core simulator for the deterministic MSRE analysis.",
keywords = "MC few-group constant, MSRE, PARCS, Serpent 2, nodal diffusion",
author = "Jin Li and Shai Kinast and Volkan Seker and Jipu Wang and Andrew Ward and Brendan Kochunas and Thomas Downar and Ugur Mertyurek",
note = "Publisher Copyright: Copyright {\textcopyright} 2021 AMERICAN NUCLEAR SOCIETY, INCORPORATED, LA GRANGE PARK, ILLINOIS 60526.All rights reserved.; 2021 International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering, M and C 2021 ; Conference date: 03-10-2021 Through 07-10-2021",
year = "2021",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.13182/M\&C21-33739",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering, M and C 2021",
publisher = "American Nuclear Society",
pages = "530--539",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering, M and C 2021",
address = "United States",
}