Shwageraus, E and Hejzlar, P and Kazimi, MS (2004) Consideration of reactivity initiated accidents for TRU recycling in LWRs. In: UNSPECIFIED pp. 1889-1898..Full text not available from this repository.
Response of a PWR core loaded with Combined Non-Fertile and UO2 (CONFU) fuel assemblies to control rod ejection accident was evaluated. A number of core arrangements and TRU fuel compositions were considered and the results were compared with the performance of a reference all-UO2 core. The comparison was based on the results of a simple point kinetics model with thermal reactivity feedbacks and temperature dependant materials properties. The reactivity coefficients and core average kinetics parameters were obtained from the full core 3D neutronic simulations. The results show that application of the CONFU assembly concept causes only minor deviation of fuel performance characteristics in reactivity initiated accidents. This is a consequence of relatively small loadings of TRU in the CONFU assembly and therefore dominating role of conventional UO2 fuel in the neutronic performance of the core.
|Item Type:||Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED)|
|Divisions:||Div A > Energy|
|Depositing User:||Cron job|
|Date Deposited:||04 Feb 2015 22:53|
|Last Modified:||05 Feb 2015 08:25|