Neutronic, Steady-State, and Transient Analyses for the Kazakhstan VVR-K Reactor with LEU Fuel: ANL Independent Verification Results

Technical Report · Sat Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1214274· OSTI ID:1214274

Hanan, Nelson A. ^[1]; Garner, Patrick L. ^[1]

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1. Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Calculations have been performed for steady state and postulated transients in the VVR-K reactor at the Institute of Nuclear Physics (INP), Kazakhstan. (The reactor designation in Cyrillic is BBP-K; transliterating characters to English gives VVR-K but translating words gives WWR-K.) These calculations have been performed at the request of staff of the INP who are performing similar calculations. The selection of the transients considered started during working meetings and email correspondence between Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) and INP staff. In the end the transient were defined by the INP staff. Calculations were performed for the fresh low-enriched uranium (LEU) core and for four subsequent cores as beryllium is added to maintain critically during the first 15 cycles. These calculations have been performed independently from those being performed by INP and serve as one step in the verification process.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-06CH11357
• OSTI ID: 1214274
• Report Number(s): ANL/RTR/TM--15/7; 120766
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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