Issue |
EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 106, 2016
ISRD 15 – International Symposium on Reactor Dosimetry
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Article Number | 02008 | |
Number of page(s) | 10 | |
Section | Reactor Surveillance and Plant Life | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201610602008 | |
Published online | 03 February 2016 |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201610602008
Methodology of Fuel Burn Up Fitting in VVER-1000 Reactor Core by Using New Ex-Vessel Neutron Dosimetry and In-Core Measurements and its Application for Routine Reactor Pressure Vessel Fluence Calculations
Scientific and Engineering Centre for Nuclear and Radiation Safety (SEC NRS), 107140 Moscow, Russia
a Corresponding author: pborodkin@secnrs.ru
Published online: 3 February 2016
Paper describes the new approach of fitting axial fuel burn-up patterns in peripheral fuel assemblies of VVER-1000 type reactors, on the base of ex-core neutron leakage measurements, neutron-physical calculations and in-core SPND measured data. The developed approach uses results of new ex-vessel measurements on different power units through different reactor cycles and their uncertainties to clear the influence of a fitted fuel burn-up profile to the RPV neutron fluence calculations. The new methodology may be recommended to be included in the routine fluence calculations used in RPV lifetime management and may be taken into account during VVER-1000 core burn-up pattern correction.
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