2006 International RERTR Meeting
Abstracts and Available Papers Presented at the Meeting
Calculation
Studies To Substantiate Trial of Pilot Low-Enriched FAs
in the WWR-K Reactor (*)
F. Arinkin, P. Chakrov,
L. Chekushina, Sh. Gizatulin, K Kadyrzhanov,
S. Koltochnik, V.Nasonov, N. Romanova, A.Taliev, Zh.
Zhotabaev, Zh. Zhumadilova
The Kazakhstan Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources,
The Institute of Nuclear Physics affiliated to the
Kazakhstan National Nuclear Center
1 Ibragimov str., 050032 Almaty – Kazakhstan
ABSTRACT
Calculation studies are carried out to substantiate the WWR-K reactor conversion to low-enriched fuel (≤20%). Calculations support possibility to create in the WWR-K reactor core the conditions required for testing pilot FAs. Appropriate heat-hydraulic calculations are performed. Real operation cycles needed to achieve the average 60-% burnup are found with the computer code MCU-REA [1]. The determined reactor core characteristics show that the fuel test won’t be an obstacle for other irradiation activities.
(*) Work was carried out with financial support from NTI.
Full paper in PDF format
- Calculation Studies To
Substantiate Trial of Pilot Low-Enriched FAs in the WWR-K
Reactor, F. Arinkin et al.
[PDF, 234KB, 8 pages]
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