Analysis of Oskarshamn-2 stability event using TRACE/SIMULATE-3K and comparison to TRACE/PARCS and SIMULATE-3K stand-alone

On butterfly effect in the dynamics of Oskarshamn-2 instability event of 1999

“…In recent years, an OECD/NEA Benchmark has been launched in order to analyze a real plant transient (stability event) undergone in the Swedish plant, Oskarshamn-2, on 25th February 1999, during Cycle 24 (Kozlowski, et al, 1999). Among other institutions and universities (Gajev et al, 2013;Kozlowski, 2014;Balestra et al, 2013), the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) was an active participant and in this context efforts have been dedicated to study this interesting and challenging stability event (Dokhane et al, 2016;Dokhane et al, 2017). In that context, a stability methodology has been developed and validated, at PSI, based on the three-dimensional reactor kinetics state-of-the-art code SIMULATE-3K (S3K) (Dokhane et al, 2016).…”