SUN Jianyou, ZOU Yang, YAN Rui, et al. Study on the influence of core volume of PB-FHR on coolant temperature reactivity coefficient[J]. Nuclear techniques, 2014, 37(12): 120603
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SUN Jianyou, ZOU Yang, YAN Rui, et al. Study on the influence of core volume of PB-FHR on coolant temperature reactivity coefficient[J]. Nuclear techniques, 2014, 37(12): 120603 DOI: 10.11889/j.0253-3219.2014.hjs.37.120603.
Study on the influence of core volume of PB-FHR on coolant temperature reactivity coefficient
Background: The coolant temperature reactivity coefficient (CTRC) of the pebble fluoride-salt-cooled high temperature reactors (PB-FHR) is closely related to the core volume. Purpose: The relationship between the core volume of PB-FHR with 2LiF-BeF2 (7Li concentration: 99.995%) as coolant and the CTRC values are quantitatively analyzed. Methods: The CTRCs of FHR with different core volumes were calculated with the computer code KENO in SCALE5.1. Results: CTRC increases from negative to positive as the core volume increases from 2 m3 to an infinite value. Conclusion: Based on the analysis of the four factor formula
the different CTRC values with variant core volume can be attributed to the influence of the leakage probability
non-leakage probability and thermal utilization factor. Abstract