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Post fission time evolution calculation by FIFRELIN coupled with PHITS and DCHAIN

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Fission reaction Monte–Carlo code FIFRELIN is interfaced to a general-purpose radiation transport simulation code PHITS to calculate the time evolution of observables after fission reactions. By feeding the isotopic fission yield data of FIFRELIN to DCHAIN-PHITS, the burn-up calculation functionality of PHITS based on the activation and decay data libraries and the Bateman equation, the time evolution of decay heat from 0.2 to 10\(^5\) seconds after the \(^{235}\)U(n\(_{th}\),fission) pulse was calculated and compared with literature data. The comparison illustrated that the latest FIFRELIN can accurately predict the time evolution of decay heat, whereas the previous version of FIFRELIN overestimated the decay heat in the first 10 sec. In addition to burn-up calculations, transport simulations of both prompt and delayed radiation can be performed by passing their spectra calculated by FIFRELIN to particle transport functionality of PHITS. This combination helps design detectors, experiments, and shielding based on the accurate fission physics of FIFRELIN. Being interfaced to PHITS, FIFRELIN is a powerful tool for studying the observables of fission reactions.

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This manuscript has no associated data or the data will not be deposited [Authors’ comment: The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.]

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This research was conducted during JAEA sabbatical program. This work was partly supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP18K14159

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  3. Commissariatà l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives, DES, IRESNE, DER, Cadarache, Saint-Paul-Lez-Durance, 13108, France

    Olivier Litaize, Abdelhazize Chebboubi & Olivier Serot

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Appendix : Practical guide on the codes

Appendix : Practical guide on the codes

Since the interfaces developed in this study are built in to FIFRELIN, one can use them as a part of FIFRELIN. The performance of FIFRELIN including its new interfaces is confirmed in Linux and Windows subject to the installation of the GNU C++ compiler. PHITS can be used in the computers of Linux, Mac, or Windows. When a simulation by FIFRELIN is over, the intermediate files to be passed to PHITS are created in a folder “output/phitsSourceSpecification”. By importing the files in this folder to PHITS input files as source specifications, users can perform transport simulation of these particles. Similarly, the intermediate files for DCHAIN are created in the folder output/dchain. By feeding one of the files dchain.inp to DCHAIN batch file (Windows) or DCHAIN shell script file (Mac or Linux), the burn-up calculation is performed by DCHAIN. This interface is invoked by defining a FIFRELIN input parameter “Simulation/DelayedComponent” as “DCHAIN”, Users can define another FIFRELIN input parameter “Simulation/DelayedComponent/DchainDir” to specify the directory where the data files of DCHAIN are stored.

One can obtain FIFRELIN from OECD-NEA databank while PHITS including DCHAIN is distributed by JAEA PHITS office. They are available subject to the export control screening. Users can combine the distributed version of these codes.

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Ogawa, T., Litaize, O., Mancusi, D. et al. Post fission time evolution calculation by FIFRELIN coupled with PHITS and DCHAIN. Eur. Phys. J. A 58, 153 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-022-00800-z

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