Equalization of energy density in boiling water reactors (as exemplified by WB-50). Development and testing of WB -50 computational model on the basis of MCU-RR code
| Parent link: | Journal of Physics: Conference Series Vol. 781 : Nuclear Reactor Physics 2016 (ICNRP-2016).— 2017.— [012024, 4 p.] |
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| Summary: | Title screen Within the framework of research in possibility and prospects of power density equalization in boiling water reactors (as exemplified by WB-50) a work was undertaken to improve prior computational model of the WB-50 reactor implemented in MCU-RR software. Analysis of prior works showed that critical state calculations have deviation of calculated reactivity exceeding +-0.3 % ([delta]Kef/Kef) for minimum concentrations of boric acid in the reactor water and reaching 2 % for maximum concentration values. Axial coefficient of nonuniform burnup distribution reaches high values in the WB-50 reactor. Thus, the computational model needed refinement to take into account burnup inhomogeneity along the fuel assembly height. At this stage, computational results with mean square deviation of less than 0.7 % ([delta]Kef/Kef) and dispersion of design values of +-1 % ([delta]K/K) shall be deemed acceptable. Further lowering of these parameters apparently requires root cause analysis of such large values and paying more attention to experimental measurement techniques. |
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2017
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/781/1/012024 |
| Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
| KOHA link: | https://koha.lib.tpu.ru/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=655929 |