This work has been conceived and performed in the frame of the residual activities concerning the TRADE program. The TRADE program, which was foreseen in RC-1 TRIGA reactor located at ENEA-Casaccia research centre near Rome, was planned to investigate the static and dynamic behaviour of ADS at power in thermal neutron spectrum. Because problems in financial backing, the program was interrupted at the end of 2004. In spite of these unlucky circumstances, a huge experimental data bank has been set up during the time period prior to the program interruption. In 2007 IAEA endorsed this experimental campaign, and an experimental benchmark was launched in the frame of the Coordinated Research Project "Analytical and Experimental Benchmark Analyses of Accelerator Driven Systems (ADS)" coordinated by IAEA (2006-2010). The benchmark, named "pre-TRADE experimental benchmark" and described in this report, has been coordinated by ENEA and has been focused on the evaluation, via computation, of the correction factors to be applied to the PNS Area-ratio and MSA results for the selected reactivity estimates to take into account the role of the spatial/energy effects on the rough experimental data.
Questo lavoro e stato concepito e svolto nell'ambito delle attività residuali del programma TRADE. Il programma TRADE, previsto nel reattore TRIGA RC-1 del Centro ENEA della Casaccia, era finalizzato allo studio del comportamento statico e dinamico di un ADS a potenza. Il programma fu interrotto al termine del 2004 a causa di problemi finanziari. A dispetto di tali circostanze, durante il periodo precedente l'interruzione del programma è stata generata una vasta banca dati sperimentale. Nel 2007 la IAEA ha rivalutato tale banca dati ed ha lanciato un benchmark internazionale in seno al Coordinated Research Project "Analytical and Experimental Benchmark Analyses of Accelerator Driven Systems (ADS)" coordinato dalla stessa IAEA (2006-2010). Il benchmark descritto in questo lavoro, denominato "pre-TRADE experimental benchmark", è stato coordinato da ENEA ed è stato focalizzato sulla valutazione, tramite calcolo, dei fattori correttivi da applicare ad una selezione di risultati di misura di reattività con tecniche PNS Area-ratio e MSA per prendere in considerazione l'influenza degli effetti spazio-energetici sui dati sperimentali grezzi.
Specifications of the IAEA "pre-TRADE Experimental Benchmark"
Peluso, Vincenzo;Carta, Mario;Santagata, Alfonso;Burgio, Nunzio
2012-05-23
Abstract
This work has been conceived and performed in the frame of the residual activities concerning the TRADE program. The TRADE program, which was foreseen in RC-1 TRIGA reactor located at ENEA-Casaccia research centre near Rome, was planned to investigate the static and dynamic behaviour of ADS at power in thermal neutron spectrum. Because problems in financial backing, the program was interrupted at the end of 2004. In spite of these unlucky circumstances, a huge experimental data bank has been set up during the time period prior to the program interruption. In 2007 IAEA endorsed this experimental campaign, and an experimental benchmark was launched in the frame of the Coordinated Research Project "Analytical and Experimental Benchmark Analyses of Accelerator Driven Systems (ADS)" coordinated by IAEA (2006-2010). The benchmark, named "pre-TRADE experimental benchmark" and described in this report, has been coordinated by ENEA and has been focused on the evaluation, via computation, of the correction factors to be applied to the PNS Area-ratio and MSA results for the selected reactivity estimates to take into account the role of the spatial/energy effects on the rough experimental data.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
