Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8083675 | Nuclear Engineering and Technology | 2018 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
The control rod worth requirement obtained from the reactivity balance is a minimum control rod worth to maintain the reactor critical during the whole cycle. The minimum available rod worth must be larger than the control rod worth requirement to manipulate the reactor safely in each reactor state. It is found that the SMR does have enough control rod worth available during rapid transient to maintain the SMR at subcritical below k-effectives of 0.99 for both hot zero power and cold zero power.
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Authors
Lezani van der Merwe, Chang Joo Hah,