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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2020-02-01
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Series: | Nuclear Engineering and Technology |
Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1738573319302372 |