Reactor-physics design calculations for the ACPR Upgrade

Technical Report · Mon Mar 01 04:00:00 EST 1982

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5332231· OSTI ID:5332231

Pickard, P S; Odom, J P

This report describes the reactor physics calculations performed for the upgrade of the Annular Core Pulse Reactor (ACPR). The ACPR has been in operation since 1967 and has been utilized for a variety of simulation and reactor safety experiments involving both transient and steady-state operations. The limitation in performing such experiments in the ACPR has been the degree to which realistic reactor safety and nuclear effects simulation conditions could be created. The motivation for the ACPR Upgrade was to increase pulse and steady-state performance with a sufficiently harder neutron energy spectrum to allow a wider range of tests to be performed.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00789
• OSTI ID: 5332231
• Report Number(s): NUREG/CR-1851; SAND-80-0764; ON: DE82016737
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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