Published October 2000 | Version v1
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Development of PWR advanced-RCC

Creators

  • 1. Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc., Osaka (Japan)
  • 2. Hokkaido Electric Power Co., Inc., Sapporo, Hokkaido (Japan)
  • 3. Shikoku Electric Power Co., Inc., Takamatsu, Kagawa (Japan)
  • 4. Kyushu Electric Power Co., Inc., Fukuoka (Japan)
  • 5. Japan Atomic Power Company, Tokyo (Japan)
  • 6. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Kobe, Hyogo (Japan)
  • 7. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Yokohama, Kanagawa (Japan)

Description

PWR advanced-RCC (Rod Control Cluster), which increase control rod worth adopting B4C with enriched 10B as RCC absorber and the B4C/Ag-In-Cd axially hybrid design, is developed to enhance flexibility of large MOX or high enriched fuel loading capability. And the adoption of a double cladding structure result in improvement of wears resistance and rationalization of inspection. The adoption of the advanced-RCC results in the reduction of the construction costs and the maintenance costs for the significant reduction of the number of the RCCs in PWR. To verify these new designs of the advanced-RCC, some experiments of control rod flow induced vibration, RCC drop characteristics, control rod worth, the irradiation characteristics are performed. It is confirmed the advanced-RCC will be adopted in APWR in the near future. (author)

Part of:
The 7th national symposium on power and energy systems (SPES 2000)

Additional details

Additional titles

Original title (Japanese)
Dai-7-kai doryoku, enerugi gijutsu shinpojiumu koen ronbunshu

Publishing Information

Publisher
Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Imprint Place
Tokyo (Japan)
Imprint Title
The 7th national symposium on power and energy systems (SPES 2000)
Imprint Pagination
478 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 244-249

Conference

Title
7. national symposium on power and energy systems
Acronym
SPES 2000
Dates
31 Oct - 1 Nov 2000
Place
Tokyo (Japan)

INIS

Country of Publication
Japan
Country of Input or Organization
Japan
INIS RN
32031596
Subject category
S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
BORON 10; BORON CARBIDES; CLADDING; COMMERCIALIZATION; CONTROL ELEMENTS; CONTROL ROD WORTHS; EVALUATION; NEUTRON ABSORBERS; PERFORMANCE TESTING; PWR TYPE REACTORS; SPECIFICATIONS; TEST FACILITIES
Descriptors DEC
BORON COMPOUNDS; BORON ISOTOPES; CARBIDES; CARBON COMPOUNDS; DEPOSITION; ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS; ISOTOPES; LIGHT NUCLEI; NUCLEI; ODD-ODD NUCLEI; POWER REACTORS; REACTOR COMPONENTS; REACTORS; STABLE ISOTOPES; SURFACE COATING; TESTING; THERMAL REACTORS; WATER COOLED REACTORS; WATER MODERATED REACTORS

Optional Information

Notes
3 refs., 7 figs., 4 tabs. Imprint:Dai-7-kai doryoku, enerugi gijutsu shinpojiumu koen ronbunshu