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Neutronic Analysis of Heavy Water Application in HPLWR Emergency Core Cooling System

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Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

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Since 2002 a generation IV nuclear energy system development project has been initiated to enhance the future role of nuclear energy systems. Challenging technology goals for generation IV nuclear reactor systems were defined in 4 areas: sustainability, economics, safety and reliability and proliferation resistance. Light water reactors at supercritical pressure, being currently under design, are the new generation of nuclear reactors. The high-performance light water reactor (HPLWR) is the European version of the supercritical-pressure water cooled reactor (SCWR). The aim of this study is to reliability analysis of heavy water emergency core cooling system (ECCS) (instead of light water ECCS) in HPLWRs during LOCA (loss of coolant accident) through neutronics calculations and applied feedback.. Reliability analysis (neutronic calculations) are performed using WIMS and CITATION codes. Changes in neutronic parameters, such as neutron cross-sections, effective multiplication factor and power peaking factor during LOCA, are discussed by injecting different concentrations of the heavy water coolant by ECCS.

DOI

10.21608/ajnsa.2017.1940.1006

Keywords

HPLWR, ECCS, Heavy Water, Neutronic Analysis

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SAMAN

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TASHAKOR

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Affiliation

Department of Renewable Energy, Shiraz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran

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saman.tashakor@yahoo.com

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SHIRAZ

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51

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2

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872

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2018-04-01

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2017-10-26

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2018-04-01

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116

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123

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1110-0451

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2090-4258

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455

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Arab Journal of Nuclear Sciences and Applications

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https://ajnsa.journals.ekb.eg/

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Neutronic Analysis of Heavy Water Application in HPLWR Emergency Core Cooling System

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22 Jan 2023