Abstracts and Available Papers Presented at the 2002 International RERTR Meeting
REVISITING THE HFR-PETTEN LEU
CONVERSION STUDY
N. A. Hanan, R. B. Pond, and J. E. Matos
RERTR Program
Technology Development Division
Argonne National
Laboratory
Argonne, Illinois
60439-4841 USA
ABSTRACT
The results of a joint
feasibility study between the Nuclear Research and consultancy Group (NRG) and
Argonne National Laboratory for the LEU conversion of the HFR-Petten reactor in
The Netherlands were presented at the 2000 RERTR meeting. Recently, improved models for cross section
generation of the burnable poison (B in the side plates of the HEU core and Cd
wires in the LEU core) were created at ANL, together with new diffusion theory
models for burnup analyses. The purpose
of this paper is to present the results of diffusion theory and Monte Carlo analyses
for the HEU and the selected LEU core using these improved models, and at the
same time to show that the results and conclusions reached in the previous
paper are still valid.
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