Optimization of fuel assembly with gadolinium for LWRS

• Autorzy: Cudrnak P. , Necas V.
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

At present, the fuel assemblies of Light Water Reactors require mainly cost-effective production of electricity. The objective of in-core fuel management is to achieve the objective of minimizing fuel cycle cost by using advanced models of core loading strategies. Current development is focused mainly on optimizing the design of gadolinium fuel, thereby to reduce the average enrichment of fuel assemblies and the binding of the excess reactivity at the beginning of the fuel cycle. This paper deals with different ways of optimizing fuel assemblies containing a burnable absorber for PWR and VVER reactors. These calculations were made in SCLAE 6 code, TRION module.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

fuel assembly; gadolinium; Gd2O3; VVER-440; k[inf]; multiplication factor

PL

sekcja paliwowa; zestaw paliwowy; gadolin; Gd2O3; tlenek gadolinowy; VVER-440; współczynnik mnożenia

• Wydawca: Institute of Heat Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology
• Czasopismo: Journal of Power Technologies
• Rocznik: 2011
• Tom: Vol. 91, nr 4
• Strony: 186--190
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 4 poz., rys., wykr.

Twórcy

autor

Cudrnak P.

autor

Necas V.

• Department of Nuclear Physics and Technology, Slovak University of Technology, 3 Ilkovieova Street, 812 19 Bratislava, Slovakia,

Bibliografia

• [1] M. Schlieck, H.-D. Berger, A. Neufert, Optimized gadolinia concepts for advanced in-core fuel management in pwrs, Nuclear Engineering and Design 205 (1-2) (2001) 191-198.
• [2] M. Schlieck, W. Puchta, R. Bohm, Comparison of fuel assembly designs with different gadolinium concepts, in: Transactions of the Annual Meeting of the German Nuclear Society, 1999.
• [3] H. Matsumoto, M. Ouisloumen, K. Yamaji, T. Takeda, Depletion calculations for PWR assemblies including burnable absorbers with lattice code PARAGON, Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology 43 (2) (2006) 179-188.
• [4] P. Cudrnak, V. Necas, P. Darilek, Assembly including burnable absorber for VVER-440 reactor, in: 9th International Conference EEE 2010, 2010.