Core Monitoring for Commercial Reactors: Improvements in Systems and Methods
Subtitle: Workshop Proceedings, Stockholm 4-5 October 1999
By: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and Nuclear Energy Agency
Contributors: Nuclear Energy Agency
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]:
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9789264181526
Subjects: Nuclear energy
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Executive Summary; title: Annex 1. Online Core Monitoring for BWR, PWR. Overview and Comments on Operation Experience and Further Development; title: Annex 2. Technical Programme; title: Session I. Requirements on Core Monitoring Systems; title: User Interface Design and System Integration Aspects of Core Monitoring Systems by O. Berg, T. Bodal, A. Nornaes, and J. Porsmyr; title: Functional Requirements for Core Surveillance Systems by T. Andersson; title: Uncertainty Assessment in BWR Core Monitoring by J. J. Casal; title: Session II. Sensors, Signal Processing, and Evaluation; title: Industrial Tests of Rhodium Self-Powered Detectors: The Folfech 2 Experimentation by J. L. Mourlevat, D. Janvier, and H. D. Warren; title: Statistical Analysis of the Ratio of Measured and Predicted Rh SPND Signals in a VVER-440/213 Reactor by F. Adorjan, S. Patai Szabo, and I. Pos; title: The Study on the BWR In-Core Detector Response Calculation by A. Fukao and E. Saji; title: Demonstration of Optical In-Core Monitoring System for Advanced Nuclear Power Reactors by T. Kakuta, K. Suzuki, H. Yamagishi, H. Itoh and M. Urakami; title: New Technologies for the Acceleration and Vibration Measurements Inside Operating Nuclear Power Reactors by J. Runkel, D. Stegemann, J. Fiedler, P. Heidemann, R. Blaser, F. Schmid, M. Trobitz, L. Hirsch, and K. Thoma; title: Development of Advanced Digital Rod Position Indication Systems by K. Inagaki, H. Shinohara, S. Yasue, and M. Tamuro; title: Experience with Fixed Platinum In-Core Detectors by r. J. Cacciapouti and J. P. Gorski; title: Session III. Improved Core Models in Core Monitoring; title: Impact of Advanced BWR Core Physics Method o BWR Core Monitoring by H. Moon and A. Wells; title: Core Monitoring Based on Advanced Nodal Methods: Experience and Plans for Further Improvement and Development by A. O. Noel, L. J. Covington, A. NIlsson, and D. Greiner; title: JEF-2 Cross-Section Library for CASMO-4: Impact on Core Monitoring of OKG Reactors by P. Claesson; title: BWR Core Stability Prediction On-Line with the Computer Code MATSTAB by T. Smed, P. Lansaker, and P. Hanggi; title: VNEM: Variational Nodal Expansion Method for Light Water Reactor Core Analysis by M. Tsuiki and S. Hval; title: Session IV. Improved Core Monitoring Systems, Design and Operating Experience; title: Some Aspects of the New Core Monitoring System at NPP Dukovany and First Experience by M. Pecka, J. Svarny and J. Kment; title: Recent Improvements in On-Line Core Supervision at Loviisa NPP by M. Antila, and J. Kuusisto; title: Refinement of Siemens Core Monitoring Based on Aeroball and PDD In-Core Measuring Systems Using POWERTRAX by I. Endrizzi, M. Beczkowiak, and G. Meier; title: Review of the Current Status of Core Monitoring Systems and the Future Trend in PWRs in Japan by Y. Shimazu and M. Masuda; title: Core Supervision Methods and Future Improvements of the core MASTER/PRESTO System at KKB by S. Lundberg, J. Wenisch, and W. Van Teeffelen; title: The Siemens Advanced Core Monitoring System FNR-K in KKI-1 KKP-1 and KKK by H. Potstada, M. Beczkowiak, M. Frank, and K. Linnenfelser; title: Design and Validation of the New ABB Core Monitoring System by J.Eriksson, P. Kelfve, C-A Jonsson, and S. Andersson; title: Introduction of Virtual Detectors for Core Monitoring System of Korean Standard Nuclear Power Plant by E. K. Lee, Y. H. Kim, K. H. Cha, and M. G. Park; title: List of Participants