Application of CENDL-3.2 and ENDF/B-VIII.0 on the reactor physics simulation of PWR

Abstract

The latest CENDL and ENDF/B evaluated nuclear data libraries was released in 2020 and 2018, respectively. To apply CENDL-3.2 and ENDF/B-VIII.0 in the reactor physic simulations of pressurized water reactor (PWR), the CNP-1000 PWR, which is an improved GEN-II PWR and operated in Fuqing Nuclear Power Plant in China, is simulated using these two libraries. The key parameters during the startup physics tests and power operation in the first three fuel cycles of the CNP-1000 reactor have been simulated and compared with corresponding measurement values. The numerical results show that ENDF/B-VIII.0 performs better in several parameters of the startup physics tests than ENDF/B-VII.0; the cross-section data in CENDL-3.2 is competent in the engineering application of PWR.