Reactor Core Design Laboratory

General Information and Activity Areas

The Reactor Core Design Laboratory design WWER-1000 reactor cores, including:
  • Selection of reload fuel inventory, including from different vendors (mixed cores);
  • Nuclear safety substantiation of fuel reloads:
  • Nuclear substantiation of new types of fuel, including nuclear safety analysis.
The Reactor Core Design Laboratory analyzes criticality and reactivity of the systems used to ship, store, and deposit nuclear fuel.
The Reactor Core Design Laboratory designs accelerator-driven sub-critical systems.
The Reactor Core Design Laboratory verifies and validates different nuclear design codes.
The Reactor Core Design Laboratory modifies and develops its own nuclear design codes.
During the laborary seminar

Product Examples 

  • Safety Substantiation for the Use of Westinghouse Lead Test Assemblies in the SUNPP, Unit 3, WEC-UNFQP-006(T), Rev. 3, January 2005, 438 p.
  • PHOENIX-H/ANC-H Qualification Report for the Core Design with the TVSA Fuel Assembly, Report 12-3-036, Rev. 1, May 2009, 409 p.
  • Safety Substantiation For the Use of Westinghouse Reload Batch at SUNPP Unit 3, WEC-UNFQP-006-01(T), Rev. 4, Volume 1, March 2011, 274 p.
  • Safety Substantiation For the Use of Westinghouse Reload Batch at SUNPP Unit 3, WEC-UNFQP-006-01(T), Rev. 4, Volume 2, March 2011, 709 p.
  • NESTLE Qualification for Nuclear Analysis of VVER-1000, Report 12-3-120, Rev. 0, September 2010, 109 p.
  • Design Calculations for the Pattern and Number of Absorber Inserts in Two Ventilated Storage Containers of the Spent Nuclear Fuel Dry Storage Facility Loaded at ZNPP-5 during 2011 Outage, Report 12-3-166, Rev. 0, May 2011, 55 p.
  • KRUIZ Verification Report for WWER-1000 Core Monitoring with Westinghouse Fuel Assemblies, Report 12-3-167, September 2011, 50 p.

Customers

  • NNEGC Energoatom, including ZNPP, SUNPP;
  • STCU (Science and Technology Center in Ukraine);
  • Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine

Current and Past Projects of the Reactor Core Design Laboratory

Ukraine Nuclear Fuel Qualification Program (UNFQP), 2000-currently

Development of the conceptual design of the neutron source facility based on the accelerator and sub-critical assembly with reduced enrichment fuel 2000-2011

Interfaces

The Reactor Core Design Laboratory closely interfaces with the Nuclear Fuel Design Laboratory, Safety Analysis and Licensing Laboratory, NSC KIPT Plasma Physics Institute, Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute, SUNPP and ZNPP Nuclear Safety Departments, SSTC NRS, PNNL, and Westinghouse EC.

The staff of the Reactor Core Design Laboratory provides semester-long instruction on “Core Design” to graduate students of Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute at the Steam Generator Building Department; 2-3 students of the Department prepare their Master's projects at the Reactor Core Design Laboratory.

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