Analysis of the nuclear measurement program for an optimized BR2 core configuration

Geert Van den Branden; Silva Kalcheva; Emre Sikik; Edgar Koonen

Analysis of the nuclear measurement program for an optimized BR2 core configuration

Geert Van den Branden, Silva Kalcheva, Emre Sikik, Edgar Koonen

Reactor Control and Experiments

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Abstract

This paper presents the analysis of the results of the Nuclear Measurement Program (NMP) executed during the shut-down of cycle 05/2012 of the BR2 reactor. The aim of the NMP was to determine the properties of a reactor core load with a new configuration of the control rods and to evaluate/verify the predicted numerical results by MCNPX. The methods used for the interpretation of the measurement results include combinations of an analytical method for determination of the axial relative control rod efficiency and least square techniques.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering, M and C 2013
Pages	1023-1034
Number of pages	12
Volume	2
State	Published - 2013
Event	International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering, M and C 2013 - Sun Valley, ID Duration: 5 May 2013 → 9 May 2013

Publication series

Name	International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering, M and C 2013
Volume	2

Conference

Conference	International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering, M and C 2013
Country/Territory	United States
City	Sun Valley, ID
Period	2013-05-05 → 2013-05-09

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Nuclear Energy and Engineering
Applied Mathematics

Cite this

Van den Branden, G., Kalcheva, S., Sikik, E., & Koonen, E. (2013). Analysis of the nuclear measurement program for an optimized BR2 core configuration. In International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering, M and C 2013 (Vol. 2, pp. 1023-1034). (International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering, M and C 2013; Vol. 2).

Van den Branden, Geert ; Kalcheva, Silva ; Sikik, Emre et al. / Analysis of the nuclear measurement program for an optimized BR2 core configuration. International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering, M and C 2013. Vol. 2 2013. pp. 1023-1034 (International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering, M and C 2013).

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Van den Branden, G , Kalcheva, S , Sikik, E & Koonen, E 2013, Analysis of the nuclear measurement program for an optimized BR2 core configuration. in International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering, M and C 2013. vol. 2, International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering, M and C 2013, vol. 2, pp. 1023-1034, International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering, M and C 2013, Sun Valley, ID, United States, 2013-05-05.

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