International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants: Nuclear Power - A Safe and Sustainable Choice for Green Future, ICAPP 2013, Held with the 28th KAIF/KNS Annual Conference, pp.1776 - 1780
Abstract
The feasibility of daily load follow operation has been demonstrated in the equilibrium cycle of OPR1000. An equilibrium core of OPR1000 is developed and loaded with 177 PLUS7 fuel assemblies in 3 batches. Three reactivity control strategies are examined for the load follow operation. 1) use only regulation banks, 2) use regulation banks with boron control, and 3) use regulation banks, boron control, and the part strength banks. It is demonstrated that, using the strategy 3, the daily load follow operation is feasible at BOC, MOC, and EOC of the OPR1000 equilibrium cycle.
Publisher
International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants: Nuclear Power - A Safe and Sustainable Choice for Green Future, ICAPP 2013, Held with the 28th KAIF/KNS Annual Conference