𝔖 Bobbio Scriptorium
✦   LIBER   ✦

Impact of thicker cladding on the nuclear parameters of the NPP Krško fuel

✍ Scribed by Marjan Kromar; Bojan Kurinčič

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Weight
307 KB
Volume
241
Category
Article
ISSN
0029-5493

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

To make fuel rods more resistant to grid-to-rod fretting or other cladding penetration failures, the cladding thickness could be increased or strengthened. Implementation of thicker fuel rod cladding was evaluated for the NPP Krško that uses 16 × 16 fuel design. Cladding thickness of the Westinghouse standard fuel design (STD) and optimized fuel design (OFA) is increased. The reactivity effect during the fuel burnup is determined. To obtain a complete realistic view of the fuel behaviour a typical, near equilibrium, 18-month fuel cycle is investigated. The most important nuclear core parameters such as critical boron concentrations, isothermal temperature coefficient and rod worth are determined and compared.

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

Effects of the cladding parameters on th
Effects of the cladding parameters on the deposition efficiency in pulsed Nd:YAG laser cladding
✍ Hyoung-Keun Lee 📂 Article 📅 2008 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 534 KB

The purpose of the present study is to analyze the effects of the cladding parameters on the deposition efficiency in cladding of Co alloy powder by a low power pulsed Nd:YAG laser, and to optimize the cladding parameters for maximizing the deposition efficiency. Experiments were designed, conducte

The impact of nuclear science on medicin
The impact of nuclear science on medicine
✍ G. Kraft 📂 Article 📅 1999 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 745 KB

From the very beginning, i.e. from the discovery of the natural radioactivity by H. Becquerel and the production of radium by M. Curie, nuclear physics had a strong impact on medicine: Radioactive sources were immediately made use of in tumor therapy long before the action mechanisms of ionizing rad