Light Water Reactor core design and fuel management

 

Kurs18

 

Dr. Kostadin Ivanov
 

 

Course 018
 Title Light Water Reactor core design and fuel management
 Prerequisites none
 Goal of the course Providing basics for LWR core design and fuel management methodologies, and training in LWR core reload applications
 Content

This course introduces to the design of a safe and economical light water reactor (LWR) core loading using state-of-the-art methods. The course will provide the background and theory for the computational techniques and their application to core design, reload safety analysis checks and operational calculations. Furthermore it will describe the background and theory of computational models for core and sub-channel thermohydraulic analyses to confirm and validate the core thermohydraulic and fuel temperature limits. After this overview, fundamentals of reactor reload calculations are presented along with optimisation techniques for core loading pattern development and burnable poison (BP) placement. A brief review of LWR nuclear fuel cycles and economics considerations related to LWR core design and fuel management complete the course. The training part of the course includes computer exercises (using the state-of-the-art LWR core analysis code system CASMO/SIMULATE) on technical problem assignments for PWR and BWR core designs including development of low leakage core designs, transition to equilibrium cycles, burnable poisons positioning, etc. The thermal-hydraulic analysis will be performed using COBRA IV and COBRA-TF.

The course will be given in English

 Speaker Dr. Kostadin Ivanov
 Schedule 2017; 9 am to 5 pm daily
 Location KIT Campus Nord, FTU, Building 101, Room 155

Dead line for application: 2017

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