Application of Origen2.1 in the decay photon spectrum calculation of spallation products

TL;DR

This paper develops specialized libraries for Origen2.1 to accurately calculate the decay photon spectrum of spallation products in ADS tungsten targets, using data from FLUKA simulations and NuDat2.6.

Contribution

The paper creates tailored libraries for Origen2.1 to improve decay photon spectrum calculations for spallation products in tungsten targets.

Findings

Accumulated activity data for spallation products.

Nuclide contribution to photon emission.

Enhanced calculation accuracy for decay spectra.

Abstract

Origen2.1 is a widely used computer code for calculating the burnup, decay, and processing of radioactive materials. However, the nuclide library of Origen2.1 is used for existing reactors like pressurized water reactor, to calculate the photon spectrum released by the decay of spallation products, we have made specific libraries for the ADS tungsten spallation target, based on the results given by a Monte Carlo code: FLUKA. All the data used to make the Origen2.1 libraries is obtained from Nuclear structure & decay Data (NuDat2.6). The accumulated activity of spallation products and the contribution of nuclides to photon emission are given in this paper.