Computational Study of 19.75% UO2 Fuel for the Core Conversion of Nigeria Research Reactor-1 (NIRR-1) from HEU to LEU

Samson, Damilola Oluwafemi; Onimisi, M. Y.; Salawu, A; Buba, A; Rabba, J

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“…The current Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) Nigeria Research Reactor-1 (NIRR-1) has a tank-in-pool structural configuration and a nominal thermal power rating of 31.1 kW [1]. The current core of the reactor is a 230 x 230 mm square cylinder and fueled by using U-Al4 enriched to 90.2% [6]. The computer code selected to perform these depletion/burnup calculations for the current NIRR-1 core is the VENTURE PC [7].…”

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Depletion Analysis of the Nigerian Research Reactor Fuel with 19.75% Enriched UO2 Material

Rabba¹,

Onimisi²,

Samson³

2019

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The depletion analysis of the Nigerian research reactor fuel with 19.75% enriched UO2 have been performed using the VENTURE PC code. The matrix exponential method was selected in this work to perform the depletion analysis. The volume fraction of the materials in this mixture was calculated and multiplied by their respective atom densities to obtain the effective atom density of the nuclide in the water, Aluminium mix region of the fuel cell model. The plot of the variation of k infinity versus hydrogen to Uranium ratio was generated using Matlab programming language for processing of the computer code result. This shows that as the ratio of hydrogen to uranium in the core of the reactor is increased, the reactivity also increases by gradually increasing the fuel cell radii till it gets to the peak of 0.6193. Any further increment in the radius of the fuel cell radii, the reactivity of the reactor decreases as the hydrogen to uranium ratio increases.

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