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Keywords: The Advanced Direct 1-Step (AdD1S) is one of the most validated tools for the evaluation of Shutdown Dose Rate
Shutdown dose rate in complex fusion tokamak machines. The present work is built on the experience in analyzing tokamaks using
D1S prior versions of the code, where the activation analysis was limited to the first-step reactions. In the light of the
Neutronics neutron irradiation scenarios foreseen for fusion power reactors and the increasing importance of safety re-
Activation
quirements, the possibility to treat the multi-step reactions introduced in the present version represents a novel
Code development
and relevant development in the field. Moreover, a new Python library, PyD1S, has been developed to optimize
the MCNP-FISPACT interface and data analysis. In this paper, the recent developments and the first applications
are presented.
An accurate evaluation of the shutdown dose rate is fundamental for 2. Principles and implementation of advanced D1S dynamic
shielding design, materials’ requirements, licensing and planning of
maintenance operations in high-performance fusion devices. The cal- The D1S approach treats the decay gammas of the radioactive nu-
culation of the shutdown dose rate requires to combine radiation clides as promptly emitted and hence, the neutrons and decay gammas
transport and inventory codes. The Advanced D1S [1] method is one of are transported in a single simulation. Gammas are emitted and flagged
the most validated in complex fusion tokamak machines. It is a Direct 1- according to the parent isotope and reaction. Proper time factors, cal-
Step class [2] tool based on MCNP5 Monte Carlo [3] and FISPACT [4] culated analytically or through activation codes, are applied to the
inventory codes, with key computation capabilities, such as the mesh scored quantities to take into account the build-up and the decay of the
tally maps and continuous time evolution assessment of the dose rate. radionuclides considered. The direct emission of decay gammas re-
The Direct 1-Step approach foresees a single transport simulation both quires the use of special D1S libraries, where the prompt-gamma
of neutrons and decay gammas; photons are treated as promptly emissions are replaced by decay gammas emitted by the generated
emitted and weighted by correction factors to account for build-up and radionuclide.
decay of the considered radionuclides. Advanced D1S has been vali- The D1S approach is based on the assumption that the neutron
dated through measurements at JET tokamak and comparison with spectrum, the number of parent nuclides and the cross-sections are
Rigorous 2-Step codes [5] and it has been also extensively used for ITER time-independent. Under this hypothesis, the temporal evolution of the
and DEMO calculations. The Advanced D1S Dynamic is an improved shutdown dose rate (SDDR) can be treated separating the spatial and
version of Advanced D1S with new features aimed at extending appli- temporal dependence:
cations, at overcoming present limitations and at improving its versa- k
tility [6]. The most relevant improvement is the possibility to treat SDDR (x , y, z , t ) = ∑ Dk (x , y, z )⋅τk−1 (t )
multi-step reactions, despite the restraints of a 1-step computational 1 (1)
scheme. A new Python library has been also developed to optimize the Where, for the k-th radionuclide:
MCNP-FISPACT interface, the set-up and data analysis. The present
work describes the developments of Advanced D1S Dynamic and its
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Corresponding author at: DIAEE, Sapienza University of Rome, Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 244, 00186, Rome, Italy.
E-mail address: giovanni.mariano@uniroma1.it (G. Mariano).
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fusengdes.2020.111631
Received 20 September 2019; Received in revised form 11 March 2020; Accepted 15 March 2020
Available online 19 March 2020
0920-3796/ © 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Fig. 1. Workflow of PyD1S library. On the left-side the calculation of time correction factors is described: the PyD1S library reads Activities and Atoms from two
FISPACT outputs and exports the calculated time correction factors in a proper format. In the right side the gamma and neutron transport and post-processing phase
are described: for cell-based analysis, the correction factors are applied in post-processing phase for all the considered cooling time while for meshtally analysis a
single cooling time needs to be selected as input of the MCNP calculation.
resume table, while the others contains the calculations related to a Pb, W and Ca.
single cooling time step, where the contribution to the dose of each
radionuclide is reported;
• decay_gamma_spectra: it works like the SDDR_calculation module, the 3.1. Divertor Tokamak test facility
output is the decay gamma spectra for the cooling time steps con-
sidered. The Shutdown Dose Rate analysis has been performed to support the
design and the licensing phase of DTT [14]. The Advanced D1S dy-
The execution time of each module requires just few seconds on a namic has been applied to the 20o model of DTT (Fig. 2) using a con-
commercial laptop. The implemented workflow (Fig. 1) can be divided servative irradiation scenario. The maximum DD neutron yield is as-
into three main phases: 1) calculation of correction factors, 2) radiation sumed to be 1.5⋅1017 n/s; 1.5⋅1015 n/s from DT fusion reactions (1% of
transport calculation with the modified version of MCNP and 3) post- DD neutrons) have been considered to take into account the triton burn-
processing analysis. The calculation of correction factors requires two up. Three representative phases of the machine life have been con-
FISPACT runs: the first one needs the actual irradiation scenario, the sidered: 18 months, 42 months and end of life. Details are in reference
second the “1 s” scenario where all the neutrons are generated in 1 s; [14].
both require as input a representative neutron spectra (DD or DT) and a The cell-based analysis has been performed in the positions in-
fictitious material composition including all parents of the activation dicated in Fig. 2 and the results for the “End of Life” are reported in
reactions of interest. PyD1S extracts the Activities from the first FIS- Fig. 3 in terms of temporal evolution of SDDR. At the end of life, the
PACT output and the Atoms from the second one, for each cooling time, shutdown dose rate exceeds 100 μSv/h outside ports up to 1 day after
to calculate the time correction factors of the selected nuclides. Given a
specific application, the calculation of the correction factors should be
performed for each irradiation history of interest.
The radiation transport calculation consists of an MCNP run, that
requires the definition of: geometry, materials, neutron source and
tallies. Special data libraries and decay data are also required. For mesh
tally analyses, the selection of a single cooling time is necessary, since
the temporal evolution still needs to be implemented for maps pro-
duction.
In post-processing phase, PyD1S calculates the temporal evolution
of Shutdown dose rate and decay gamma spectra for the considered
cooling times.
3. Applications
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Fig. 3. Shutdown Dose Rate (μSv/h) versus Time After Shutdown (days). The
relative statistical errors are below 5 %.
Table 1
Contribution to the shutdown dose rate of Cobalt impurities 1000 wppm in
cryostat SS304 at the end of life in Ob2 position.
Time after Shutdown SDDR due to Cobalt/1000 wppm Total SDDR %
Fig. 5. DEMO WCLL 2018 SMS blanket and heterogeneous divertor. Position of
in Cryostat (μSv/h) (μSv/h)
tally cells D1-D4 and details of Plasma facing component.
1 day 13 29 45
12 days 12 22 55
1 month 12 21 57
3.2. WCLL DEMO 2018
3 months 12 19 63
6 months 11 16 69 The Advanced D1S Dynamic with the multi-step approach has been
1 year 11 14 79 applied to the WCLL 2018 DEMO detailed model within EUROfusion
PPPT SAE activities. The MCNP model (Fig. 5) is based on an integra-
tion of a layered 2018 WCLL SMS blanket [16], with a heterogeneous
shutdown outside cryostat. In the internal position (E0) the dose rate
DEMO divertor that includes a detailed description of the plasma facing
level is a factor of 30 higher than in the external positions (E1).
components [17]. The DEMO 2017 fusion power is 1998 MW corre-
With cell-based analyses, sensitivity studies have also been per-
sponding to 7.094⋅1020n/s , with an average neutron wall loading of
formed to evaluate the impact of the relevant impurities on shutdown
1.032 MW/m2 . The irradiation scenario consists in 1888 days at 30 % of
dose rate, in particular cobalt and tantalum. At the intermediate phase
full power followed by 10 days with 48 pulses (4 h long with 1 h of
the tantalum in steel can impact up to 20 %/100 wppm of the total
dwell time) at full power.
dose; the impact of cobalt is relevant in high performance phase.
In a first stage, after selection of relevant activation reactions,
Table 1 shows, as an example, the contribution of 1000 wppm of Co in
FISPACT II [4] code was set-up to perform the calculation of the tem-
Cryostat SS304 to the total dose in Ob2 position. The results reveal that
poral correction factors needed for Advanced D1S dynamic calculations
the content of Co has a major impact on the doses outside cryostat and
and to assess the effective constant amount of 181Ta as an impurity that,
on the basis of such analyses its concentration in DTT cryostat steel has
at the end of the irradiation, produces the same 182Ta amount generated
been reduced to 500 wppm.
from multi-step reactions on 182W, as described in Section 2. This al-
Fig. 4 shows the SDDR and its statistical errors maps calculated at 3 lows to include the contribution of 182
W
months after the DTT shutdown: the mesh tally voxel resolution is (n, 2n)181W (ECdecay )181Ta (n, γ )182Ta reaction, which is responsible of
10 × 10 × 10 cm3 and the total voxels number is 120000. The statis- more than 80 % of 182Ta production in FW armour and plasma facing
tical error is below 10 % in the zones of interest. components (PFC) of the divertor. The 3-D Advanced D1S calculations
The results have been obtained by running Advanced D1S in a take into account the dose due to the– multi-step reactions chain of
parallel mode using 600 processors on HPC ENEA CRESCO cluster [15]. Tungsten. According to this calculation, the PFC tungsten has been
The computing time reported by MCNP output is 61876 min. doped of 181Ta, increasing its content from 2.03⋅10−5 to 6.83⋅10−2 and
balancing the W accordingly. The shutdown dose rate and decay
gamma spectra have been calculated from 1 h to 1 year after shutdown
Fig. 4. Shutdown dose rate at 3 months after DTT shutdown (top) and relative statistical errors (down) maps. Mesh tally with voxel resolution 10 × 10 × 10 cm3. Y-Z
axes units are in cm.
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Table 2
Shutdown Dose Rate Dominant Nuclides in position D1 for W-original (top) and W-doped (down) models. The statistical error is less than 5%.
1h 1 day 12 days 1 year
Nuclide SDDR (Sv/h) % dose Nuclide SDDR (Sv/h) % dose Nuclide SDDR (Sv/h) % dose Nuclide SDDR (Sv/h) % dose
using two MCNP inputs: the original W and artificial W doped with The authors declare that they have no known competing financial
181
Ta. Table 2 reports the SDDR results and dominant contribution in interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influ-
the position D1 in the original and W doped models. The statistical ence the work reported in this paper.
error associated to the dominant nuclides SDDR is less than 5 %.
The impact of increase of 181Ta on the SDDR value due to the multi- Acknowledgments
step reaction on tungsten is shown in Fig. 6: 12 days after shutdown, the
presence of artificial tungsten makes the dose up to a 12 % higher with The computing resources and the related technical support used for
respect to the results obtained using the original material (D1). A minor this work have been provided by CRESCO/ENEAGRID High
effect is found on D3 and D4 due to the low amount of W in FW armour. Performance Computing infrastructure and its staff [15]. CRESCO/
The statistical error for the total SDDR is less than 2.3 % for each po- ENEAGRID High Performance Computing infrastructure is funded by
sition. ENEA.
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