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Westinghouse submits AP1000 design revision to NRC
Yesterday, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced that it has received an application from Westinghouse to renew and update the design certification (DC) for its AP1000 reactor. This application seeks to formally incorporate the lessons learned from the construction of Vogtle-3 and -4 into the design control document (DCD) of the AP1000.
This long-expected submittal builds on previous plans at both the NRC and Westinghouse for the future of gigawatt-scale light water reactor deployments in the United States.
Pavel M. Bokov, Danniell Botes, Rian H. Prinsloo, Djordje I. Tomašević
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 197 | Number 2 | February 2023 | Pages 308-332
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2022.2108654
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
In this paper, we formulate a new flux reconstruction method based on the High Dimensional Model Representation (HDMR) of the nodal flux shape. The method requires the conventional nodal parameters obtained as a result of the transverse-integration nodal solution procedure as well as corner values calculated by a combination of finite-volume and finite-difference approximations. The proposed flux reconstruction procedure is applicable to rectangular nodes and more than two energy groups. The flux reconstruction method is applied to a number of homogeneous and heterogeneous test problems in order to evaluate its accuracy.