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Verification and Validation of a Thermohydraulics-Neutronics Software Package for Calculating Transient Regimes in Heavy-Water Reactor Installations

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A software package was developed for coupled thermohydraulic and three-dimensional neutronics calculations of a core in transient regimes of heavy-water reactor installations. This package is necessary for safety validation in regimes with a change in the positions of the control rods or absorber replacement, since strong non-uniformities of the neutron field can arise in these cases. Validation showed that the software package describes the main parameters of a heavy-water reactor installation with sufficient accuracy for engineering calculations and can be used to calculate the dynamics of installations of this type.

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  1. Afrikantov Experimental Design Bureau of Mechanical Engineering (Afrikantov OKBM), Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

    A. V. Davydov, R. V. Kozlov, S. A. Malkin, A. S. Ushatikov & M. G. Shkokov

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Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 132, No. 6, pp. 327–331, June, 2022.

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Davydov, A.V., Kozlov, R.V., Malkin, S.A. et al. Verification and Validation of a Thermohydraulics-Neutronics Software Package for Calculating Transient Regimes in Heavy-Water Reactor Installations. At Energy 132, 342–346 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10512-023-00957-w

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