Recommended strategy and limitations of burnable absorbers used in VVER fuel assemblies

Frybortova Lenka

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Recommended strategy and limitations of burnable absorbers used in VVER fuel assemblies

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- Recommended strategy and limitations of burnable absorbers used in VVER fuel assemblies
- Nuclear Science and Techniques Vol. 30, Issue 8, Article number: 129(2019)
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  1.UJV Rez a.s., Hlavni 130, 250 68 Husinec - Rez, Czech Republic
  2.Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Brehova 7, 115 19 Praha 1, Czech Republic
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  Corresponding author, hle@ujv.cz
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Frybortova Lenka. Recommended strategy and limitations of burnable absorbers used in VVER fuel assemblies. [J]. Nuclear Science and Techniques 30(8):129(2019)
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Frybortova Lenka. Recommended strategy and limitations of burnable absorbers used in VVER fuel assemblies. [J]. Nuclear Science and Techniques 30(8):129(2019) DOI： 10.1007/s41365-019-0651-x.

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Abstract

There is an obvious effort to increase the burn up of used fuel assemblies in order to improve fuel utilization. A more effective operation can be realized by extending the fuel cycles or by increasing the number of reloadings. This change is nevertheless connected with increasing the uranium enrichment even above 5% of ,235,U. Burnable absorbers are widely used to compensate for the positive reactivity of fresh fuel. With proper optimization, burnable absorbers decrease the reactivity excess at the beginning of the cycle, and they can help with stabilization of power distribution. This paper describes properties of several materials that can be used as burnable absorbers. The change in concentration or position of the pin with a burnable absorber in a fuel assembly was analyzed by the HELIOS transport lattice code. The multiplication factor and power peaking factor dependence on fuel burn up were used to evaluate the neutronic properties of burnable absorbers. The following four different materials are discussed in this paper: Gd,2,O,3, IFBA, Er,2,O,3, and Dy,2,O,3,. Gadolinium had the greatest influence on fuel characteristics. The number of pins with a burnable absorber was limited in the VVER-440 fuel assembly to six. In the VVER-1000 fuel assembly, 36 pins with a burnable absorber can be used as the assembly is larger. The erbium depletion rate was comparable with uranium burn up. Dysprosium had the largest parasitic absorption after depletion.

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Burnable absorberGadoliniumIFBAErbiumDysprosiumPower peakingVVER fuelHELIOS code

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