Processing and preliminary testing on multi-group data file of pivotal nuclides in thorium-uranium cycle

The development of advanced thorium-based nuclear system raises new requirements on nuclear data. The multi-group data file of critical nuclides in the thorium-uranium recycle is the foundation of physical design, analysis and calculation of the reactor core. Based on authoritative nuclear data processing code NJOY, this paper obtains a WIMS format multi-group cross section data files through processing the ENDF/B-VII.1 evaluation nuclear data file, uses the specific update maintenance procedure WILLIE to get a WIMS format data file, and conducts a series of critical benchmarks on the data file using the multi-group reactor core calculation code WIMSD5B. The results show that the computed results of the WIMS file based on the processing of ENDF/B-VII.1 are basically the same as those of the latest WIMS-D file published on the websites of the WIMS-D library updating project (WLUP) with higher accuracy and reliability than those of the shipped WIMS-D file of the WIMSD5B code. Furthermore, the average deviation of the new WIMS file performing in the validation of 16 thorium-uranium cycle benchmarks is 0.225 3% smaller than that of the old WIMS file.