TY - GEN
T1 - Optimization studies for a MYRRHA-like mock up configuration in the VENUS-F facility
AU - Mercatali, Luigi
AU - Doligez, Xavier
AU - Kochetkov, Anatoly
AU - Vittiglio, Guido
AU - Uyttenhove, Wim
AU - Bianchini, Giancarlo
AU - Carta, Mario
AU - Peluso, Vincenzo Giuseppe
AU - Gandini, Augusto
AU - Fabrizio, Valentina
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Within the framework of the GUINEVERE (Generation of Uninterrupted Intense NEutron pulses at the lead VEnus Reactor) [1] and FREYA (Fast Reactor Experiments for hYbrid Applications ) European projects [2] the VENUS-F facility has been designed and built at the SCK-CEN research centre of Mol (Belgium) in order to perform a series of experiments aiming to develop, improve and validate the existing techniques for the subcriticality monitoring of Accelerator Driven Systems [3]. The facility consists of a zero power fast reactor operated in sub-critical conditions coupled with an upgraded version of the GENEPI neutron generator previously used for the MUSE experiments. As a part of the FREYA project, a dedicated experimental campaign to support the design and licensing of the MYRRHA reactor is being envisioned in the VENUS-F facility and this requires the realization of a new core configuration with respect to the current one. At the beginning this MYRRHA mock-up configuration will need to be critical in order for some standard experimental methodologies to obtain the reference reactivity value to be applied (i.e. rod drop). In this paper the optimization studies from the neutron physics point of view aiming to design a VENUS-F configuration representative of the MYRRHA core arc presented.
AB - Within the framework of the GUINEVERE (Generation of Uninterrupted Intense NEutron pulses at the lead VEnus Reactor) [1] and FREYA (Fast Reactor Experiments for hYbrid Applications ) European projects [2] the VENUS-F facility has been designed and built at the SCK-CEN research centre of Mol (Belgium) in order to perform a series of experiments aiming to develop, improve and validate the existing techniques for the subcriticality monitoring of Accelerator Driven Systems [3]. The facility consists of a zero power fast reactor operated in sub-critical conditions coupled with an upgraded version of the GENEPI neutron generator previously used for the MUSE experiments. As a part of the FREYA project, a dedicated experimental campaign to support the design and licensing of the MYRRHA reactor is being envisioned in the VENUS-F facility and this requires the realization of a new core configuration with respect to the current one. At the beginning this MYRRHA mock-up configuration will need to be critical in order for some standard experimental methodologies to obtain the reference reactivity value to be applied (i.e. rod drop). In this paper the optimization studies from the neutron physics point of view aiming to design a VENUS-F configuration representative of the MYRRHA core arc presented.
KW - Fast Reactors
KW - Accelerator Driven System (ADS)
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84902266228&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - In-proceedings paper
AN - SCOPUS:84902266228
SN - 9781629938288
T3 - 11th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Applications of Accelerators, AccApp 2013
SP - 370
EP - 374
BT - 11th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Applications of Accelerators, AccApp 2013
PB - Belgian Nuclear Research Center
T2 - 11th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Applications of Accelerators, AccApp 2013
Y2 - 5 August 2013 through 8 August 2013
ER -