Nuclear Criticality Safety Tools in the Chernobyl-4 Accident Analysis

Conference · Sun Jun 12 00:00:00 EDT 1988 · Transactions of the American Nuclear Society

OSTI ID:5559806

Landeyro, P. A.

The collaboration with the Italian Safety Authority (DISP), started in July 1986, has the aim of studying, from a neutronic point of view, the possible initiator event and the accident dynamics in unit four of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. This report was produced within the framework of that collaboration. A main condition of the present work was making use of standard calculational methods employed in nuclear criticality safety analysis. This means that the neutron multiplication factor calculation should be made with the modules and the cross-section libraries of the SCALE system or in any case with some KENO IV version and the burnup calculation with the ORIGEN code.

• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Nuclear Criticality Safety Program (NCSP)
• OSTI ID: 5559806
• Report Number(s): CONF-880601-; CODEN: TANSA; TRN: 89-027140
• Journal Information: Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, Vol. 56; Conference: American Nuclear Society Annual Meeting , San Diego, CA (United States), 12-16 Jun 1988; ISSN 0003-018X
• Publisher: American Nuclear Society
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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REACTOR COMPONENTS
REACTOR SHUTDOWN
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SCALE System
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