Published 2005 | Version v1
Miscellaneous

Improvement of the micro-depletion model in RFSP to account for multiple fuel regions for CANDU core-follow simulations

  • 1. Atomic Energy of Canada Limited., Mississauga, Ontario (Canada)
  • 2. Atomic Energy of Canada Limited., Chalk River, Ontario (Canada)

Description

The micro-depletion model in the SIMULATE module of RFSP, an AECL reactor fuelling simulation program, has been improved to account for multiple fuel regions in the fuel cluster. A comparison between results using various methods (one-region micro-depletion, multi-region micro-depletion, and WIMS) was performed for enriched fuel. The comparison shows that the improved multi-region micro-depletion model has superior accuracy over the original one-region micro-depletion model when applied to depletion calculations and xenon-transient simulations with enriched fuel in tight lattice pitch. (author)

Part of:
26th Annual CNS conference; 29th CNS/CNA student conference

Additional details

Publishing Information

Publisher
Canadian Nuclear Society
Imprint Place
Toronto, Ontario (Canada)
ISBN
0-919784-82-8
Imprint Title
26th Annual CNS conference; 29th CNS/CNA student conference
Imprint Pagination
168 Megabytes
Journal Page Range
[11 p.]

Conference

Title
26. Annual CNS conference; 29. CNS/CNA student conference. Proceedings
Dates
12-15 Jun 2005
Place
Toronto, Ontario (Canada)

INIS

Country of Publication
Canada
Country of Input or Organization
Canada
INIS RN
38041983
Subject category
S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference, Non-conventional Literature
Descriptors DEI
ATOMIC ENERGY OF CANADA LTD; BURNUP; CANDU TYPE REACTORS; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; REACTOR FUELING; REACTOR LATTICES
Descriptors DEC
CANADIAN ORGANIZATIONS; HEAVY WATER MODERATED REACTORS; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; POWER REACTORS; PRESSURE TUBE REACTORS; REACTORS; SIMULATION; THERMAL REACTORS

Optional Information

Notes
4 refs., 4 tabs., 1 fig.