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Hot Fuel Examination Facility named a Nuclear Historic Landmark
The American Nuclear Society recently announced the designation of three new nuclear historic landmarks: the Hot Fuel Examination Facility (HFEF), the Neely Nuclear Research Center, and the Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant. Today’s article, the first in a three-part series, will focus on the historical significance of HFEF.
Hsiang-Shou Cheng, Ming-Shih Lu, David J. Diamond
Nuclear Technology | Volume 41 | Number 3 | December 1978 | Pages 283-298
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT78-A32114
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The space-time effects associated with the void reactivity feedback in a commercial boiling water reactor were studied with the aid of the two-dimensional (R,Z) time-dependent coupled neutronics thermal-hydraulics computer code BNL-TWIGL. The statistical weight factor (SWF), which equates a point-reactor model to an appropriate space-dependent model, was used to quantify these effects. The SWF varied for the different reference reactor conditions and types of void perturbations considered. Its significant magnitude demonstrated that unless proper account is taken of multidimensional effects in plant transient calculations, the void feedback will be incorrect, and this will lead to errors in power and temperature. The presence of bypass void was found to increase the void reactivity feedback. The influence of other feedback mechanisms was studied, and a suggestion was offered for obtaining a measurement of the void reactivity coefficient.