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Subcriticality Measurement of Jackets with Spent FA VVER-1000 in a KhOT-1 Storage Facility Using the SKP-KhOT System

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The SKP-KhOT system for measuring subcriticality, making it possible to determine Keff of jackets with spent FA VVER-1000 during normal operation as well as design basis and beyond-design basis accidents, has been installed in the KhOT-1 storage facility at the Mining and Chemical Combine. The results of its tests have been recognized as positive; the design basis subcriticality of the studied jackets falls within the confidence interval of the measured value. It is shown that Keff of a jacket does not depend on its environment.

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  1. State Science Center of the Russian Federation – Leipunskii Institute for Physics and Power Engineering (IPPE), Obninsk, Russia

    S. A. Nikolaev, V. A. Chernov, A. V. Masterov, V. S. Volkov, S. G. Isaev, R. L. Ibragimov, M. A. Shul’ts & N. V. Kuzin

  2. Mining and Chemical Combine, Zheleznogorsk, Russia

    I. N. Seelev & S. R. Nevin

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Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 137, No. 3, pp, 130–135, September, 2019.

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Nikolaev, S.A., Chernov, V.A., Masterov, A.V. et al. Subcriticality Measurement of Jackets with Spent FA VVER-1000 in a KhOT-1 Storage Facility Using the SKP-KhOT System. At Energy 127, 139–144 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10512-020-00600-y

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