Abstract
The method of characteristics which is an effective method for neutron transport calculation with high flexibility in complex geometry has been applied to high temperature gas-cooled pebble-bed reactor geometry. The MOCP (the Method of Characteristics for Pebble-bed high temperature gas-cooled reactor) code was developed in Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology, Tsinghua University to achieve this goal. The first stone standing ahead is the geometry modeling for pebble-bed district. In this work, a solid modeling method called constructive solid geometry (CSG) is introduced to model the pebble-bed district. A universal ray tracing technique is developed to arrange tracks in 3-D cylinder geometry. Furthermore, tree search method is implemented into MOCP to improve the ray tracing efficiency. Automatic meshing is implemented to improve the geometry modeling efficiency. A redundant tree was constructed to mesh the interspace among pebbles. The geometry modeling capability of MOCP is verified by fast converging single group benchmarks.
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