Published 2011
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Theory and calculation of the in-core vanadium SPND burn-up at the nuclear power plant CNA II
Description
Here two theories are presented in order to calculate the burn-up of the in-core vanadium self-powered nuclear detector (SPND). One of the developments is based on an exponential behaviour of the burn-up process, while the second treatment takes into account the neutron flux perturbation due to the presence of the detector. The results of both theories agree each other and show that for the kind of detectors installed at the nuclear power plant Central Nuclear Atucha II (CNA II) the burn-up is very low, either after a long period of time under full power of the nuclear reactor: about 7% after 10 years. (author)
Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Imprint Title
- Proceedings of ICAPP 2011
- Imprint Pagination
- 2851 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 947-957
- Report number
- INIS-FR--13-0283
Conference
- Title
- The Power of Innovation
- Acronym
- ICAPP 2011 - Performance and Flexibility
- Dates
- 2-5 May 2011
- Place
- Nice (France)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- France
- Country of Input or Organization
- France
- INIS RN
- 44092888
- Subject category
- S37: INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- ATUCHA-2 REACTOR; RADIOACTIVATION; SELF-POWERED NEUTRON DETECTORS; SENSITIVITY; VANADIUM
- Descriptors DEC
- ELEMENTS; HEAVY WATER COOLED REACTORS; HEAVY WATER MODERATED REACTORS; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; METALS; NATURAL URANIUM REACTORS; NEUTRON DETECTORS; PHWR TYPE REACTORS; POWER REACTORS; PRESSURE TUBE REACTORS; RADIATION DETECTORS; REACTORS; SELF-POWERED DETECTORS; THERMAL REACTORS; TRANSITION ELEMENTS
Optional Information
- Notes
- 10 refs.; Available from the INIS Liaison Officer for France, see the 'INIS contacts' section of the INIS website for current contact and E-mail addresses: http://www.iaea.org/INIS/contacts/