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NEUTRONIC FLUX AND POWER DISTRIBUTION IN A NUCLEAR POWER REACTOR USING WIMS-D4 AND CITATION CODES
MAHER N.SARSAM1 & BASHAIR MOHAMMED SAIED2
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ABSTRACT
The flux and power distribution of a WWER- 440 nuclear power reactor using CITATION code was calculated. The calculation of the neutronic cross sections values was done using WIMS-D4 code. The comparison between results and benchmark values of the power distributions shows a very good agreement.
represents the heat source of a nuclear power plant and the ordinary water is used simultaneously as a moderator as well as coolant in order to remove the heat from the core. The outlet water temperature is 301 , while the inlet temperature is 268 .Two independent closed heat exchanger exist in this type of reactors, in the primary cycle the temperature is reduced from the operating temperature 301 to 288, with water pressure of 123 kgf/cm2, while in the secondary cycle the temperature is reduced to 268 with a water pressure of 47 kgf/cm2 [3]. The most important physical characteristics of the core are: Thermal power Electric power Average enrichment of fresh fuel Number of control rods Number of fuel assemblies Pressure Outlet temperature 1375 MW 440 MW 2.5% 37 312 123 bars 301
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Where
unit time. If we consider the diffusion coefficient (D) as independent of position, then for a homogeneous medium, the above equation becomes;[4,5]:
This
equation
is
known
as
the
steady
state
diffusion
equation
for
one
group
energy.
In real situations, neutrons changes their energies due to scattering, they have then different energies. The one group diffusion equation must be then substitute by the multigroup diffusion equation it can be obtained by considering other terms, which must taken into account. The general form of multigroup diffusion equation is [6]:
With: , : : g=1 ,2 , N
scattering cross section, which is equal to transport cross sections from group h to group g transfer (or removal) cross section for the inelastic scattering from group g to group h ( g <h ).
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is the average number of neutrons emitted by fission due to neutron having energies in group h. Sg (ext) is the external source of neutrons. the fission cross section in group h
flux distribution was done using the multidimensional CITATION code[8] which is designed to solve the neutron diffusion theory by finite difference method.
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1) Fundamental of WWER Type Pressurized Water Reactors. Technical Research Center of Finland Nuclear Engineering Laboratory. Helsinki Finland 2) Chatterjee,B. et al. Brief Description of VVER-1000 Reactor Annals of Nuclear Energy 37,359-370 ( 2010 ) 3) Technical Proposal and Information Materials for NPP of 880 MW Capacity With WWER-440 ATOMENERGOEXPORT-USSR-(1986) 4) Nuclear Reactor Analysis. J.G.Duderstand and J.G.Hamilton John Wiley & Sons (1986) 5) Neutron Physics by Paul Reuss Edn science (paris-france) (2008) 6) Determination of the Neutron Flux in the Reactor Zones with the Strong Neutron Absorption and Leakage V.Ljubenov and M. Milosevic Seberian Journal of Electrical Engineering vol.1 No 3 ,99-112 ( 2004)
7) Roth M.J. The Preparation of Input Data for the Lattice Code WIMS- D4 AEER-538 Rev.7( 1987) 8) CITATION, Nuclear Reactor Core Analysis Code System. T.B. Fowler ,D.R.Vondy and G.W.Cunningham ORNL-TM-2496 Rev 2 ( 1999)
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APPENDICES
Table 1: The Macroscopic Cross Section of the Fuel Assemblies Containing Fuel of 1.6 % Enrichment g 1 2 3 4 D 2.53898 1.02793 0.6947 0.37434 3.897877 10-3 2.555056 10-3 2.280669 10-2 7.072663 10-2 8.906476 10-3 5.454847 10-4 7.180091 10-3 8.307481 10-2 6.424326 10-2 6.102796 10-2 5.345292 10-2
Table 2: The Macroscopic Cross Section of the Fuel Assemblies Containing Fuel of 2.4 % Enrichment g 1 2 3 4 D 2.53962 1.02801 0.69167 0.37266 3.953181 10-3 2.676622 10-3 2.478299 10-2 8.716869 10-2 9.055655 10-3 8.180331 10-4 1.055087 10-2 1.187532 10-1 6.420577 10-2 6.098615 10-2 5.252727 10-2
Table 3: The Macroscopic Cross Section of the Fuel Assemblies Containing Fuel of 3.6 % Enrichment g 1 2 3 4 D 2.540401 1.028077 0.687466 0.369169 4.036106 10-3 2.858819 10-3 2.757706 10-2 1.096883 10-1 9.279389 10-3 1.226533 10-3 1.535437 10-2 1.672795 10-1 6.415063 10-2 6.092352 10-2 5.123709 10-2
Table 4: The Macroscopic Cross Section of the Control and Regulating Assemblies Containing Fuel of 1.6 % Enrichment g 1 2 3 4 D 2.558643 1.072144 0.771685 0.426631 3.566214 10-3 2.311081 10-3 2.221516 10-2 5.967723 10
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Table 5: The Macroscopic Cross Section of the Control and Regulating Assemblies Containing Fuel of 2.4 % Enrichment g 1 2 3 4 D 2.583657 1.080127 0.774493 0.428731 3.578034 10-3 2.418632 10-3 2.381508 10-2 7.346917 10-2 6.813435 10-3 6.125612 10-4 7.753033 10-3 8.532101 10-2 6.223391 10-2 5.618149 10-2 4.807961 10-2
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Table 6: The Macroscopic Cross Section of the Control and Regulating Assemblies Containing Fuel of 3.6 % Enrichment g 1 2 3 4 D 2.598325 1.083557 0.77969 0.429411 3.649742 10-3 2.577586 10-3 2.641661 10-2 9.202017 10-2 8.329583 10-3 1.096012 10-3 1.348928 10-3 1.420148 10-1 6.325709 10-2 5.709760 10-2 4.774550 10-2
Table 7: The Moderator Macroscopic Cross Section g 1 2 3 4 D 3.028337 1.026642 0.728542 0.2413378 3.999129 10-4 2.141653 10-5 2.042154 10-2 3.018336 10-2 8.111930 10-2 1.120832 10-1 1.111342 10-1
Fig.1: The Four Neutron Energy Group Flux Distribution in the Reactor Core
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