PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF CORE TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION OF EXPERIMENTAL POWER REACTOR USING RELAP5
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https://doi.org/10.17146/tdm.2018.20.3.4665Keywords:
Pebble bed, core temperature, EPR, RELAP5Abstract
High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactor (HTGR) is a high temperature reactor type having nuclear fuels formed by small particles containing uranium in the core. One of HTGR designs is Pebble Bed Reactor (PBR), which utilizes helium gas flowing between pebble fuels in the core. The PBR is also the similar reactor being developed by Indonesia National Nuclear Energy Agency (BATAN) under the name of the Reaktor Daya Eksperimental (RDE) or Experimental Power Reactor (EPR) started in 2015. One important step of the EPR program is the completion of the detail design document of EPR, which should be submitted to the regulatory body at the end of 2018. The purpose of this research is to present preliminary results in the core temperature distribution in the EPR using the RELAP5/SCDAP/Mod3.4 to be complemented in the detail design document. Methodology of the calculation is by modelling the core section of the EPR design according to the determined procedures. The EPR core section consisting of the pebble bed, outlet channels, and hot gas plenum have been modelled to be simulated with 10 MWt. It shows that the core temperature distribution under assumed model of 4 core zones is below the limiting pebble temperature of 1,620 °C with the highest pebble temperature of 1,477.0 °C. The results are still preliminary and requires further researches by considering other factors such as more representative radial and axial power distribution, decrease of core mass flow, and heat loss to the reactor pressure vessel.
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