Erik Guizzardi
Extension and application of TRANSURANUS fuel performance code to the MYRRHA reactor in normal and transient conditions.
Rel. Cristina Bertani. Politecnico di Torino, Master of science program in Energy And Nuclear Engineering, 2020
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Abstract
The Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK•CEN) is designing an innovative Accelerator Driven System (ADS) called MYRRHA (Multi-purpose hYbrid Research Reactor for High-tech Applications), embedded inside the European Sustainable Nuclear Industrial Initiative (ESNII) program. Objectives of this facility are to prove the feasibility of the ADS concept at a reasonable power level and to sustain the development of future Generation IV reactors making available a heavy metal-cooled core environment featured by a fast neutron spectrum. This work deals with MYRRHA fuel pin performance analysis employing the TRANSURANUS fuel performance code, with the aim of assessing the current design specifications in normal operating conditions and in the event of a particular design basis accident originating from a particle accelerator trip (i.e., a beam power jump, BPJ).
For simulating in a thorough way the fuel pin response, the TRANSURANUS applicability is extended to the specific cladding material adopted for MYRRHA, contributing to its predictive capability enlargement by implementing five new correlations
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