This paper presents the current status of works performed to date to further upgrade fuel assemblies and fuel cycle of WWER-440 reactors, and also considers some innovations – both envisaged and implemented in practice – intended to improve their neutronic and operating parameters. Reactors were assumed to operate at 100% power in a steady-state refueling mode. Trial operation of third-generation fuel assemblies (FA-3), including a comparison between some calculated and measured results, is described as an example illustrating these new developments.
Abstract. The Paper describes a new Russian Utility's regulatory document (RD EO) which has been recently developed and implemented since the beginning of 2013. This RD EO includes the procedure of RPV FNF monitoring and provides recommendations on how to predict fluence over the design lifetime taking into account results of FNF monitoring. The basic method of RPV neutron fluence monitoring is neutron transport calculations of FR in the vicinity of the RPV. Reliability of the calculation results should be validated by ex-vessel neutron-activation measurements, which were performed during different fuel cycles with different core loadings including new types of fuel.
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