抄録
This paper presents the burnup calculation capability of RMC, which is a new Monte Carlo (MC) neutron transport code developed by Reactor Engineering Analysis Laboratory (REAL) in Tsinghua university of China. Unlike most of existing MC depletion codes which explicitly couple the depletion module, RMC incorporates ORIGEN 2.1 in an implicit way. Different burn step strategies, including middle-of-step approximation and predictor-corrector method, are adopted by RMC to assure accuracy under large step size. RMC employs a spectrum-based method of tallying one-group cross section, which can considerably save computational time with negligible accuracy loss. According to validation results of benchmarks and examples, it is proved that the burnup function of RMC performs quite well in accuracy and efficiency.
