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Subchannel analysis of supercritical light water-cooled fast reactor assembly |
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| Authors: | Jaewoon Yoo Yoshiaki Oka Yuki Ishiwatari Jue Yang Jie Liu |
| Affiliation: | aNuclear Professional School, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 2-22 Shirane Shirakata, Toka-murai, Naka-gun, Ibaraki 319-1106, Japan;bDepartment of Nuclear Engineering and Management, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan |
| Abstract: | Subchannel analyses have been carried out for supercritical water-cooled fast reactor fuel assembly. Peak cladding surface temperature difference arising from subchannel heterogeneities have been calculated by using the improved subchannel analysis code STARS and was evaluated to be about 18.5 °C. Several suggestions have been also made for reducing the PCST difference arising from channel heterogeneity. Influences of local power peaking on deflection of cladding surface temperature are explained with pin power distribution taken from core depletion calculation in this paper. Maximum cladding surface temperature at nominal condition is evaluated to be 645.3 °C over the cycle. Statistical thermal design uncertainty associated with PCST calculation is evaluated by Monte-Carlo sampling technique combined with subchannel analysis code. Maximum statistical design uncertainty of PCST is calculated to be 31 °C and is in a good agreement with that from RTDP method. Influence of downward flow in seed region on system sensitivity is investigated by improved Monte-Carlo thermal design procedure. Limiting thermal condition of MCST is 681 °C (650 °C of nominal + 31 °C) within 95/95 limit for SWFR. |
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