Proceedings of the ... International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. Book of abstracts : ICONE
Online ISSN : 2424-2934
セッションID: ICONE15-10398
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ICONE15-10398 INFLUENCE OF BORON REDUCTION STRATEGIES ON PWR ACCIDENT MANAGEMENT FLEXIBILITY
Angel Aleksandrov PapukchievYubo LiuAnselm Schaefer
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In conventional pressurized water reactor (PWR) designs, soluble boron is used for reactivity control over core fuel cycle. Design changes to reduce boron concentration in the reactor coolant are of general interest regarding three aspects - improved reactivity feedback properties, lower impact of boron dilution scenarios on PWR safety and eventually more flexible accident management procedures. In order to assess the potential advantages through the introduction of boron reduction strategies in current PWRs, two low boron core configurations based on fuel with increased utilization of gadolinium and erbium burnable absorbers have been developed. The new PWR designs permit to reduce the natural boron concentration in reactor coolant at begin of cycle to 518 ppm and 805 ppm. For the assessment of the potential safety advantages of these cores a hypothetical beyond design basis accident has been simulated with the system code ATHLET. The analyses showed improved inherent safety and increased accident management flexibility of the low boron cores in comparison with the standard PWR.
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