Computer Programs

NEA-0441 KPD.

NEA-0441 KPD.

KPD, Time-Dependent Fuel Cycle Cost Calculation for Various Reactor Types

NAME OR DESIGNATION OF PROGRAM, COMPUTER, NATURE OF PHYSICAL PROBLEM SOLVED, METHOD OF SOLUTION, RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PROBLEM, TYPICAL RUNNING TIME, UNUSUAL FEATURES OF THE PROGRAM, RELATED AND AUXILIARY PROGRAMS, STATUS, REFERENCES, MACHINE REQUIREMENTS, LANGUAGE, OPERATING SYSTEM OR MONITOR UNDER WHICH PROGRAM IS EXECUTED, OTHER RESTRICTIONS, NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHOR, MATERIAL, CATEGORIES

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1. NAME OR DESIGNATION OF PROGRAM: KPD.

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2. COMPUTERS

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Program name	Package id	Status	Status date
KPD	NEA-0441/02	Tested	01-APR-1976

Machines used:

Package ID	Orig. computer	Test computer
NEA-0441/02	IBM 370 series	IBM 370 series

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3. NATURE OF PHYSICAL PROBLEM SOLVED

Fuel cycle cost calculation for different types of reactors.

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4. METHOD OF SOLUTION

For each operating cycle, all expenditures and revenues are calculated and discounted to the beginning of the cycle (present worth method) yielding the fuel cycle cost for that particular cycle. The method gives time dependent costs starting with the initial core and ending with the equilibirium phase. Each fuel charge handled in the in-core and out-of-pile fuel management is treated separately.

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5. RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PROBLEM

Maximum number of:
                  - simultaneously handled in-core charges - 200
                  - simultaneously handled out-of-pile charges - 40
                  - fuel types with different cost data - 10
                  - operating cycles - 150

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6. TYPICAL RUNNING TIME: 80 charges, 10 cycles need 6.6 sec CPU on IBM 370/165.

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7. UNUSUAL FEATURES OF THE PROGRAM

Possibility to run in conjunction with reactor physics burn-up code VSOP and to utilize depletion and fuel management data as they are produced and to perform lifetime averaged fuel cycle optimization from these.

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8. RELATED AND AUXILIARY PROGRAMS: Utilizes physics data from VSOP reactor code system.

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9. STATUS

Package ID	Status date	Status
NEA-0441/02	01-APR-1976	Tested at NEADB

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10. REFERENCES

- U. Hansen:
'KPD Present Worth Fuel Cycle Calculation Method and Codes.'
DPR 811 and JUEL-904-RG (1972).

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11. MACHINE REQUIREMENTS

IBM 360 and 370 systems with 120 kbytes. In connection with VSOP data, one magnetic tape or disk storage is required.

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12. PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE(S) USED

Package ID	Computer language
NEA-0441/02	FORTRAN-IV

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13. OPERATING SYSTEM OR MONITOR UNDER WHICH PROGRAM IS EXECUTED: IBM
370/OS, IBM 360/OS.

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14. OTHER PROGRAMMING OR OPERATING INFORMATION OR RESTRICTIONS

ANY OTHER PROGRAMMING OR OPERATING INFORMATION OR RESTRICTIONS

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15. NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHOR: U. Hansen, OECD DRAGON Project.

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16. MATERIAL AVAILABLE

NEA-0441/02

File name	File description	Records
NEA0441_02.002	SOURCE PROGRAM (F4) EBCDIC	1896
NEA0441_02.003	SAMPLE PROBLEM INPUT DATA (CASE 1)	31
NEA0441_02.004	SAMPLE PROBLEM INPUT DATA (CASE 2)	451
NEA0441_02.005	SAMPLE PROBLEM PRINTED OUTPUT (CASE 1)	295
NEA0441_02.006	SAMPLE PROBLEM PRINTED OUTPUT (CASE 2)	994

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17. CATEGORIES

D. Depletion, Fuel Management, Cost Analysis, and Power Plant Economics

Keywords: cost, fuel cycle, fuel management, present worth method.