On the multiplication factor and reactivity definitions for subcritical reactor systems |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Swedish Defence Research Agency, FOI, Division of CBRN Defence and Security, 901 82 Umeå, Sweden;2. Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Applied Physics, Nuclear Engineering, Göteborg, Sweden;3. Swedish Radiation Safety Authority, Stockholm, Sweden;4. Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Nuclear Chemistry, Göteborg, Sweden |
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| Abstract: | An analysis is made on the merit of different functions adopted for weighting neutron processes in subcritical nuclear reactor systems, as it appears in expressions of relevant integral quantities, such as reactivity worths, prompt neutron lifetimes, etc. All weight functions may be shown to depend on some sort of explicit or implicit, real or fictitious, system control. Associated with the importance function relevant to the reactor power control, the multiplication factor ksub and generalized reactivity values ρgen are defined. The difference (1-ksub)/ksub is shown to be the more appropriate index for generally representing the ADS subcriticality. However, in certain circumstances, when an accidental event is studied in which the criticality condition may be surpassed during the transient, it appears more appropriate to take into account the standard multiplication factor (keff) and the reactivity values to which the transient is associated and for the definition of which the standard adjoint flux is adopted. |
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