Core Monitoring for Commercial Reactors: Improvements in Systems and Methods [electronic resource]: Workshop Proceedings, Stockholm 4-5 October 1999 /
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Nuclear Energy Agency.
Paris : OECD Publishing,
2000.
The opening of energy markets is leading to increased competition, and the nuclear power industry must adapt if it is to meet this challenge. Internationally discussions are taking place among government authorities and electric utilities and vendors on how to deal with the rapid technical development and optimisation of nuclear fuel and its utilisation under new, more aggressive fuel management strategies. Improving reactor core monitoring systems is an important part of this process. Participants in a recent NEA workshop discussed how instrumentation, methods and models used in core monitoring can be validated or, if needed, improved and further developed to provide more reliable and detailed information on local power in the core and on other parameters indirectly affecting fuel duty. This book shows how the core monitoring system can be used to support reactor operation in normal and anticipated transient modes and to supply data used to derive initial key core parameters for transient and accident analysis.
Description based upon print version of record.
FOREWORD; CONTENTS; EXECUTIVE SUMMARY; Annex 1 - On-Line Core Monitoring for BWR, PWR Overview and Commentson Operation Experience and Further Development; Annex 2 - Technical Programme; SESSION I Requirements on Core Monitoring Systems; User Interface Design and System Integration Aspects of CoreMonitoring Systems; Functional Requirements for Core Surveillance Systems; Uncertainty Assessment in BWR Core Monitoring; SESSION II Sensors, Signal Processing and Evaluation; Industrial Tests of Rhodium Self-Powered Detectors: The Golfech 2 Experimentation
Statistical Analysis of the Ratio of Measured and Predicted Rh SPNDSignals in a VVER-440/213 ReactorThe Study on the BWR In-Core Detector Response Calculation; Demonstration of Optical In-Core Monitoring System for Advanced Nuclear Power Reactors; New Technologies for Acceleration and Vibration Measurements InsideOperating Nuclear Power Reactors; Development of Advanced Digital Rod Position Indication System; Experience with Fixed Platinum In-Core Detectors; SESSION III Improved Core Models in Core Monitoring; Impact of Advanced BWR Core Physics Method on BWR Core Monitoring
Core Monitoring Based on Advanced Nodal Methods: Experience andPlans for Further Improvements and DevelopmentJEF-2 Cross-Section Library for CASMO-4: Impact on Core Monitoringof OKG Reactors; BWR Core Stability Prediction On-Line with the Computer Code MATSTAB; VNEM: Variational Nodal Expansion Method for Light Water ReactorCore Analysis; SESSION IV Improved Core Monitoring Systems, Design and Operating Experience; Some Aspects of the New Core Monitoring System at NPP Dukovanyand First Experience; Recent Improvements in On-Line Core Supervision at Loviisa NPP
Refinement of Siemens Core Monitoring Based on Aeroball and PDDIn-Core Measuring Systems Using POWERTRAX TMReview of the Current Status of Core Monitoring Systems and the Future Trend in PWRs in Japan; Core Supervision Methods and Future Improvements of the CoreMASTER/PRESTO System at KKB; The Siemens Advanced Core Monitoring System FNR-K in KKI-1,KKP-1 and KKK; Design and Validation of the New ABB Core Monitoring System; Introduction of Virtual Detectors for Core Monitoring System of KoreanStandard Nuclear Power Plant; LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
Includes bibliographical references.
The opening of energy markets is leading to increased competition, and the nuclear power industry must adapt if it is to meet this challenge. Internationally discussions are taking place among government authorities and electric utilities and vendors on how to deal with the rapid technical development and optimisation of nuclear fuel and its utilisation under new, more aggressive fuel management strategies. Improving reactor core monitoring systems is an important part of this process. Participants in a recent NEA workshop discussed how instrumentation, methods and models used in core monitoring can be validated or, if needed, improved and further developed to provide more reliable and detailed information on local power in the core and on other parameters indirectly affecting fuel duty. This book shows how the core monitoring system can be used to support reactor operation in normal and anticipated transient modes and to supply data used to derive initial key core parameters for transient and accident analysis.
Pressurized water reactors
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