A simple analytical method for evaluation of limit-cycle oscillation amplitude in boiling water reactors

Hashimoto, Kazuo; Sano, Tadafumi; Hotta, Akitoshi; Takeda, Toshikazu

doi:10.1016/s0306-4549(98)00016-4

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“…However, a few events and tests are out-of-phase instability, which have been occurred in Cofrentes (Mata et al, 1992;IBERINCO, 2002) and Ringhals (Van der Hagen et al, 1994;Hotta et al, 1997Hotta et al, , 2000. A wide review of reported instability events can be found in the stability analysis methods or models in order to analyze and explain in-phase and out-of-phase instability events (Hashimoto, 1993(Hashimoto, , 1998Uehiro et al, 1996;Muñoz-Cobo et al, 1996;Demazière and Pázsit, 2005). The characterization of the in-phase instability is the power oscillation across the whole core in phase.…”

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Icone15-10260 in-Phase and Out-of-Phase Modes Stability Analysis With Lapur5 Code for Chinshan

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Shih

et al. 2007

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A study of the in-phase (global, core-wide) and out-ofphase (regional) modes stability analysis with LAPUR5 code for Chinshan NPP(nuclear power plant) is presented. Figure 1 and 2 show comparisons between the decay ratios (maximum value) of LAPUR5 and vendor's STAIF code in Chinshan NPP Unit 2 Cycle 22 reload design. It is clearly seen that the decay ratios of LAPUR5 are lower than the decay ratios of STAIF. Besides, the comparisons between the decay ratios of LAPUR5 and STAIF show acceptable agreement. Parametric studies for stability analysis have shown that exposure and control rod position are the most important parameters that might affect decay ratios for in-phase and out-of-phase modes stability analysis. The increase in the exposure causes these effects: (a) the increase in the density reactivity coefficient, (b) the change in the axial power shape from bottom-peaked power shape to top-peaked power shape. Additionally, the change in global decay ratio is depended on the change in density reactivity coefficient and axial power shape, and the regional decay ratio is higher than global decay ratio in the BOC condition and bottom-peaked power shape. The more control rods inserted condition causes the increase in the density reactivity coefficient, global and regional decay ratios.

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