Spatial Kinetics Studies in Liquid-Metal Fast Breeder Reactor Critical Assemblies
作者:
BrumbachS. B.,
GoinR. W.,
CarpenterS. G.,
期刊:
Nuclear Science and Engineering
(Taylor Available online 1988)
卷期:
Volume 98,
issue 2
页码: 103-117
ISSN:0029-5639
年代: 1988
DOI:10.13182/NSE88-A28490
出版商: Taylor&Francis
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
AbstractRecent measurements in the zero-power physics reactor have been used to study the effects of spatial decoupling in fast reactor critical assemblies of various sizes and compositions. Flux distributions in these assemblies had varying degrees of sensitivity to perturbations. Decoupling was investigated using rod-drop, boron-oscillator, and noise-coherence techniques, which emphasized different times following perturbations. Equilibrium flux distributions were also measured for subcritical configurations with inserted control rods. For most assemblies, accurate reactivity measurements were obtained by analyzing the power history from a single detector using inverse kinetics methods, assuming an instantaneous efficiency change for the detector. The instantaneous efficiency change assumption broke down, however, in assemblies with zones in which normal plutonium fuel was replaced by 235U fuel or fuel with a high240Pu content. Flux redistributions caused by perturbations in these cores took several minutes to evolve.
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