Assessment of reactor scram effectiveness based on measured worth of separate CR groups
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D. Afanasiev
Abstract
The paper proposes the assessment techniques for reactor scram effectiveness (including the case of getting stuck CR of the greatest effectiveness) based on the comparison of measured and calculated effectiveness of individual CR groups. The paper assesses the weight coefficients with which the differences between measured and calculated effectiveness of individual CR groups are taken into account in reactor scram efficiency assessment. Methodological uncertainties of this technique are evaluated in the paper.
Kurzfassung
In diesem Beitrag wird eine Technik zur Beurteilung der Effektivität einer Reaktorschnellabschaltung basierend auf dem Vergleich von gemessenen und berechneten Effektivitätswerten einzelner Kontrollstabgruppen beschrieben. Dabei werden gewichtete Koeffizienten zur Bestimmung der Differenz zwischen Mess- und Rechenwerten genutzt. Methodische Unsicherheiten dieser Methode werden abschließend vorgestellt.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Contents/Inhalt
- Contents
- Summaries/Kurzfassungen
- Summaries
- Editorial
- Editorial
- Technical Contributions/Fachbeiträge
- Highly enriched alternatives of VVER-440 fuel assembly
- “FULL-CORE” VVER-440 calculation benchmark
- Development of approximation method to evaluate isotopic composition of burnt fuel
- Fuel assembly burnup calculations for VVER fuel assemblies with the MONTE CARLO code SERPENT
- Solution of the CB6 benchmark on VVER-440 final disposal using the Serpent reactor physics code
- Development and verification of new nodal methods in the KIKO3DMG code
- HPLWR fine mesh core analysis
- Assessment of reactor scram effectiveness based on measured worth of separate CR groups
- Engineering factors of the macrocode MOBY-DICK
- CFD investigation of flow in the MATIS-H test facility
- Investigation of the hot-channel calculation methodology in case of shroud-less assemblies
- Assessment of the uncertainties of COBRA sub-channel calculations by using a PWR type rod bundle and the OECD NEA UAM and the PSBT benchmarks data
- Comparison analysis of effectiveness of diagnostic methods of local coolant boiling in WWER core
- Sensitivity of hydrodynamic parameters' distributions in VVER-1000 reactor pressure vessel (RPV) with respect to uncertainty of the local hydraulic resistance coefficients
