Published 2007 | Version v1
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Passive safety small reactor for distributed energy supply. Reactor response to load change

  • 1. Kobe Univ., Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kobe, Hyogo (Japan)
  • 2. Kobe Univ., Faculty of Maritime Sciences, Kobe, Hyogo (JP)

Description

PSRD is an innovative small sized PWR adopting natural circulation and self-pressurization in the primary loop with a thermal output 100 MW. In the present paper, performance of the reactor system responding to the load change has been studied using RELAP5 code. To clarify the inherent controllability, the response of reactor system without the automatic control system has been analyzed for the typical load change. The result shows that it can smoothly respond to the load change without a scram. According to a boron mixing in the primary coolant, effect of the moderator density reactivity coefficient (MDRC) on the performance has been analyzed. Significantly small MDRC is revealed to result in occurrence of the scram. (author)

Availability note (English)

Available from Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-0016, Japan
Part of:
Proceedings of the ICONE-15 (Revised). The 15th international conference on nuclear engineering

Additional details

Publishing Information

Publisher
Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Imprint Place
Tokyo (Japan)
Imprint Title
Proceedings of the ICONE-15 (Revised). The 15th international conference on nuclear engineering
Imprint Pagination
[3174 p.]
Journal Page Range
[7 p.]

Conference

Title
15. international conference on nuclear engineering
Acronym
ICONE-15
Dates
22-26 Apr 2007
Place
Nagoya, Aichi (Japan)

Optional Information

Notes
This CD-ROM can be used for WINDOWS 9x/NT/2000/ME/XP, MACINTOSH; Acrobat Reader is included; Data in PDF format, Folder Name Final Paper, Paper ID ICONE15-10220.pdf; 4 refs., 9 figs., 3 tabs.