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In this work, we evaluate the impact of simulating the thermal-hydraulics feedback in criticality risk assessment in a benchmark configuration corresponding to a simplified debris bed. We have recently discussed the coupling of the multi-phase thermal-hydraulics code MC3D with a reactivity evaluation scheme based on multi-point kinetics, which paves the way towards the assessment of the system behavior in terms of energy release. In this work, we analyze the system reactivity as a function of the thermal-hydraulics state of the system. For our investigation, we have considered a simplified cylindrical region and assumed that the fuel particles in the mixture consist of spheres of small diameter. The power has been adjusted to be representative of nuclear decay heat. For most of the examined configurations, the maximum reactivity lies below zero, which shows that the occurrence of a criticality event is likely to be excluded, thanks to the contribution of the decay heat of the fuel.

CONTRIBUTION OF THERMAL-HYDRAULICS SIMULATION TO CRITICALITY ANALYSIS OF A DEBRIS BED NUMERICAL MOCK-UP