Abstract

In the high-fidelity reactor physics design of fast reactors, the influence of photon effect needs to be explicitly simulated with the neutron-photon coupled transport method. The neutron-photon coupled transport-burnup method was researched based on the fast reactor physics design software package MOSASAUR. Photon library, photon cross-section production, photon source and photon power calculation methods were researched and the related calculation modules were developed and verified with the RBEC-M benchmark and the MET-1000 benchmark. Numerical results showed the good accuracy of the newly-developed neutron-photon coupled transport ability with MOSASAUR. The photon effect introduced the 80% difference for the assembly power in the RBEC-M benchmark, which showed the importance of the neutron-photon coupled transport in the fast reactor design.

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