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Method and Means for Monitoring the Spent-Fuel Pool Subcriticality at the Smolensk NPP

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Research based on the pulsed neutron experiment method (α-method) of subcriticality monitoring of the spent fuel pool at the Smolensk NPP is presented. The procedure includes stationary and nonstationary neutron-physical calculations and measurements of the main characteristics of a subcritical multiplying system, which the spent-fuel pool is. A description of the STEPAN-KhOYaT software specially developed for the computational support of the pulsed experiment is given. The subcriticality for real loads of spent-fuel pools is calculated and measured using the procedure.

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  1. National Research Center Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia

    I. N. Geraskin, V. E. Zhitarev, V. M. Kachanov, A. V. Krayushkin & A. Yu. Sergevnin

  2. National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute), Moscow, Russia

    A. V. Kudryavtsev, E. S. Martazov & V. A. Fedorov

  3. Smolensk Nuclear Power Plant, Desnogorsk, Russia

    A. D. Abaimov, V. V. Korotyshev & D. N. Skvortsov

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  1. I. N. Geraskin
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Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 120, No. 2, pp. 63–69, February, 2016.

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Geraskin, I.N., Zhitarev, V.E., Kachanov, V.M. et al. Method and Means for Monitoring the Spent-Fuel Pool Subcriticality at the Smolensk NPP. At Energy 120, 79–85 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10512-016-0099-6

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