Development of Low-Activation Reinforced Concrete Design Methodology - II: Concrete Activation Analyses of BWR/PWR

A precise method for estimating residual radioactivity and decommissioning cost is indispensable when deciding whether to adopt low-activation material. For this precise estimation, accurate estimation of both the thermal neutron flux and the activation cross section of the structural material is necessary. We developed a new groupwise cross-section library that has ten thermal groups for S-N transport calculation and activation calculation. These libraries are tested and used for advanced boiling water reactor (ABWR) and advanced pressurized water reactor (APWR) activation analyses.