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Criticality Safety Analysis of Fresh and Spent Fuel Storage and Handling Facilities For Vver Reactor Unit Using Mcnp5
Criticality Safety Analysis of Fresh and Spent Fuel Storage and Handling Facilities For Vver Reactor Unit Using Mcnp5
gabriel.farkas@stuba.sk
The validation calculation was run with 200 active cycles ⇒ this
number was sufficient to rend the computation uncertainty from
the MCNP5 calculation essentially negligible relative to the given
benchmark uncertainty.
σ bias = σ bench
2
+ σ calcul
2
Regarding the spent fuel storage pool (compact & reserve grid) all
conditions improving neutron multiplication were taken into
account.
All positions (AT + HT) Loading with 4.87 % Loading with 4.87 % Loading with 4.87 %
loaded with enr. fresh FAs and enr. fresh FAs and enr. fresh FAs and
4.87 % enr. fresh FAs 4 empty layers 4 layers of 45 (50) 4 layers of 45 (50)
MWd/kg burned FAs MWd/kg burned FAs
CASE – R1 CASE – R2
Full loading (including HT) with Full loading (including HT) with
4.87 % enr. fresh FAs 45 MWd/kg burned FAs
• Loading with fresh FAs • Loading with fresh FAs • Loading with fresh FAs • Loading with fresh FAs
• 4 empty layers • 4 layers of 45 MWd/kg • 4 empty layers • 4 layers of 45 MWd/kg
- burned FAs - burned FAs
Criticality issues associated with the fresh and spent fuel storages
and handling facilities were investigated for NPP Mochovce (2 x
VVER-440) using MCNP5.
Strong conservative approach was applied to calculate maximal
multiplication factor values for postulated conditions.
The outcomes showed that the requirement of safety regulations
to ensure 5 % subcriticality was met except one especially
conservative case of the fully loaded compact grid with fresh 4.87
% enriched Gd-II type of FAs. Only in this case, the calculated
value exceeded the required subcriticality limit of 0.95 by 0.55 %.
Analyses confirmed that nuclear criticality safety criteria in terms
of the fresh and spent fuel storages and handling facilities are
satisfied even at very conservative conditions.