CORE DESIGN CONCEPTS FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE LIGHT WATER REACTORS

Very High Burn-ups in Light Water Reactors

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Core Loading Design for Bushehr Pressurized Water Reactor

The modified out-in fuel management strategy was applied to the core loading design for the first four cycles of the Bushehr (Iran-1) KWU designed Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR). The minimum peak-to-average power density was chosen as the objective function of the optimization process. Lattice homogenization and group constants generation were performed by using the LEOPARD computer code. For ...

Modelling of the Late Phase of Core Degradation in Light Water Reactors

High performance Parallel Linear Sorter Core Design

Hardware sorters exploit inherent concurrency to improve the performance of sequential, softwarebased sorting algorithms. They are often based on Batcher’s odd-even or bitonic merging networks to attenuate the areagreedy hardware solutions. In this paper, a new hardware sorter architecture is presented. It is composed of smaller sorter circuits inspired on insertion sorting algorithms that cont...

Review on Core Degradation and Material Migration Research in Light-Water Reactors

Core degradation and material migration research is one of the key areas in severe accident research. A review of core degradation and melting materials immigration research in light-water reactor is important to encourage relevant research. In this paper, both relevant experiments and numerical analyses are reviewed. Due to their high cost, there have only been a few experiments on severe acci...