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Hsiang-Shou Cheng, David J. Diamond
Nuclear Technology | Volume 45 | Number 1 | August 1979 | Pages 46-53
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT79-A32284
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The response of boiling water reactor in-core detectors undergoing vibration has been calculated. A neutronic model based on calculating the fission activity at a detector position in a planar multibundle environment was employed. The model used eight energy groups and two-dimensional Cartesian geometry in a discrete-ordinates transport approximation. The in-core detector responses due to various detector displacements were calculated as a function of channel box corner wear with different effective in-channel voids, bypass voids, and instrument tube voids. The calculated noise was found to have a linear dependence on channel box wear. This was corroborated by measurements. An increase in in-channel voids was found to increase the noise, while an increase in bypass and instrument tube voids decreased the noise. The presence of a nearby control blade increased the noise.