Abstracts and Available Papers Presented at the 2003 International RERTR Meeting
NEUTRONIC CALCULATIONS IN CORE CONVERSION OF
THE IAN-R1 RESEARCH REACTOR
FROM MTR HEU TO TRIGA LEU FUEL .
José A. Sarta F.
Distrital University
Francisco José de Caldas, Colombia.
Luis A. Castiblanco
B.
ABSTRACT
With
cooperation of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), neutronic
calculations were carried out for conversion of the IAN-R1 Reactor from MTR-HEU
fuel to TRIGA-LEU fuel. In order to establish a staff for neutronic calculation
at the Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares y Energías Alternativas (INEA) a program
was established. This program included training, acquisition of hardware,
software and calculation for the core
with MTR-HEU fuel , enriched nominally to 93% and calculation for
several arrangements with the TRIGA-LEU
fuel, enriched to 19.7%. The results were verified and compared with several
groups of calculation at the Instituto
Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares (ININ) in Mexico, and General
Atomics (GA) in United States. As a result of this program, several technical
reports have been wrote.
Contact: Mr. José Antonio Sarta Fuentes
Physicist
Universidad
Distrital Francisco José De Caldas
A.A. 146186
Bogotá D.C.
Columbia
Phone: +57 (1) 295-7199
E-mail: [email protected]
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