Feasibility of combinational burnable poison pins for 24-month cycle PWR reload core

The Burnable Poison (BP) is very important for all Light Water Reactors in order to hold-down the initial excess reactivity and to control power peaking. The use of BP is even more essential as the excess reactivity increases significantly with a longer operation cycle. In this paper a feasibility s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Aiman Dandi, MinJae Lee, Myung Hyun Kim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-02-01
Series:Nuclear Engineering and Technology
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1738573319302372