Published January 1989 | Version v1
Report

Effect of fuel burnup and cross-sections on modular HTGR reactivity coefficients

  • 1. General Atomics Co., San Diego, CA (USA)

Description

The temperature dependence of the reactivity coefficient in a prismatic block Modular High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor (MHTGR) design is examined and found to be large and negative. Temperature coefficient results obtained with the ENDF/B-V data library were almost the same as results obtained with the earlier versions of the ENDF/B data library usually used at GA Technologies Inc. (GA) in spite of a significant eigenvalue increase with the ENDF/B-V data. The effects of fuel burnup and arbitrarily assumed cross section variations were examined and tabulated. (author). 2 refs, 7 figs, 5 tabs

Part of:
Nuclear data for the calculation of thermal reactor reactivity coefficients

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Publishing Information

Imprint Title
Nuclear data for the calculation of thermal reactor reactivity coefficients
Imprint Pagination
132 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 23-31.
Report number
IAEA-TECDOC--491

Conference

Title
Advisory group on nuclear data for the calculation of thermal reactor reactivity coefficients.
Dates
7-10 Dec 1987.
Place
Vienna (Austria).

INIS

Country of Publication
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
20064266
Subject category
S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
ACCURACY; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; CROSS SECTIONS; HTGR TYPE REACTORS; REACTIVITY COEFFICIENTS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE
Descriptors DEC
GAS COOLED REACTORS; GRAPHITE MODERATED REACTORS; REACTORS; SIMULATION

Optional Information

Contract/Grant/Project number
Contract DE-AC03-84F11963