OECD/NEA Burnup Credit Criticality Benchmark, Analysis of Phase II-B Results: Conceptual PWR Spent Fuel Transportation Cask
The OECD/NEA “Burn-up Credit Criticality Benchmark” working group has studied the effect of
axial burn-up profile on the criticality of a realistic PWR spent fuel transport cask (Phase II-B).
The final results of this benchmark are presented and analysed in this report.
Nine basic cases and two additional accident configurations were considered with the following
varying parameters: burn-up (0 GWd/t for fresh fuel, 30 and 50 GWd/t), fuel composition (actinides
only and actinides with fifteen fission products), axial burn-up discretisation (1 or 9 zones).