Analysis of NEA-NSC PWR Uncontrolled Control Rod Withdrawal at Zero Power Benchmark Cases with NODAL3 Code
Joint Authors
Pinem, Surian
Sembiring, Tagor Malem
Liem, Peng Hong
Source
Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations
Issue
Vol. 2017, Issue 2017 (31 Dec. 2017), pp.1-8, 8 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2017-11-23
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
8
Abstract EN
The in-house coupled neutronic and thermal-hydraulic (N/T-H) code of BATAN (National Nuclear Energy Agency of Indonesia), NODAL3, based on the few-group neutron diffusion equation in 3-dimensional geometry using the polynomial nodal method, has been verified with static and transient PWR benchmark cases.
This paper reports the verification of NODAL3 code in the NEA-NSC PWR uncontrolled control rods withdrawal at zero power benchmark.
The objective of this paper is to determine the accuracy of NODAL3 code in solving the continuously slow and fast reactivity insertions due to single and group of control rod bank withdrawn while the power and temperature increment are limited by the Doppler coefficient.
The benchmark is chosen since many organizations participated using various methods and approximations, so the calculation results of NODAL3 can be compared to other codes’ results.
The calculated parameters are performed for the steady-state, transient core averaged, and transient hot pellet results.
The influence of radial and axial nodes number was investigated for all cases.
The results of NODAL3 code are in very good agreement with the reference solutions if the radial and axial nodes number is 2 × 2 and 2 × 18 (total axial layers), respectively.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Sembiring, Tagor Malem& Pinem, Surian& Liem, Peng Hong. 2017. Analysis of NEA-NSC PWR Uncontrolled Control Rod Withdrawal at Zero Power Benchmark Cases with NODAL3 Code. Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations،Vol. 2017, no. 2017, pp.1-8.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Sembiring, Tagor Malem…[et al.]. Analysis of NEA-NSC PWR Uncontrolled Control Rod Withdrawal at Zero Power Benchmark Cases with NODAL3 Code. Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations No. 2017 (2017), pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1203720
American Medical Association (AMA)
Sembiring, Tagor Malem& Pinem, Surian& Liem, Peng Hong. Analysis of NEA-NSC PWR Uncontrolled Control Rod Withdrawal at Zero Power Benchmark Cases with NODAL3 Code. Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations. 2017. Vol. 2017, no. 2017, pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1203720
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1203720