Published March 1975
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Report
The spatial kinetics program SPARK and its application to fast reactor transients
Description
This paper describes the one-, two- and three-dimensional fast reactor kinetics code SPARK with space and energy dependence of the neutron flux. The solution of the equations is discussed and then a description of the neutronics, heat transfer and feedback formulation is presented. The program was used to calculate two-dimensional fast reactor benchmark problems. It has also been used to study several types of transients leading to can failure or fuel melting, and some typical examples are presented. (orig./RW)
Abstract (German)
Die Arbeit beschreibt den ein-, zwei- und dreidimensionalen kinetischen Code SPARK fuer schnelle Reaktoren mit Zeit- und Energieabhaengigkeit des Neutronenflusses. Die Loesung der Gleichungen wird diskutiert, und im Anschluss daran wird eine Beschreibung der neutronenphysikalischen, Waermeuebertragungs- und Rueckkopplungsformeln gegeben. Das Programm wurde zur Berechnung zweidimensionaler Schnellreaktor-Benchmark-Probleme verwendet. Darueber hinaus diente es zur Untersuchung verschiedener Transiententypen, die zu Huellenschaeden oder Brennstoffschmelzen fuehren. Einige typische Beispiele werden angefuehrt. (orig./AK)Additional details
Publishing Information
- Imprint Title
- Proceedings of the joint NEACRP/CSNI specialists' meeting on new developments in three-dimensional neutron kinetics and review of kinetics benchmark calculations
- Imprint Pagination
- p. 259-286.
- Report number
- MRR--145
Conference
- Title
- Joint NEACRP/CSNI specialists' meeting on new developments in three-dimensional neutron kinetics and review of kinetics benchmark calculations.
- Dates
- 22 Jan 1975.
- Place
- Garching/Muenchen, F.R. Germany.
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Germany
- Country of Input or Organization
- Germany
- INIS RN
- 7223934
- Subject category
- S22: GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS; S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference, Non-conventional Literature
- Descriptors DEI
- ENERGY DEPENDENCE; FAST REACTORS; FEEDBACK; HEAT TRANSFER; NEUTRON FLUX; ONE-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; REACTOR KINETICS; S CODES; SPACE DEPENDENCE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; TRANSIENTS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS
- Descriptors DEC
- COMPUTER CODES; ENERGY TRANSFER; EPITHERMAL REACTORS; KINETICS; RADIATION FLUX; REACTORS
Optional Information
- Notes
- 13 figs. Available from ZAED.
- Secondary number(s)
- AED-Conf--75-328-000.