Abstract:Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has a TRIGA mark II research reactor called TRICO II, its design power is 1.00 MW. The reactor was in extended shutdown state since November 2004. The DRC government has decided to resume its operation using the last uploaded core. One of the safety features to be determined before putting the spent fuel into the reactor core is the calculation of its excess reactivity, radionuclide inventories as well as its discharge burn-up. The spent fuel was modeled and simulated by usin… Show more
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