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Boiling Water Reactor Core Simulation With Generalized Isotopic Inventory Tracking For Actinide Management, Jack Douglas Galloway
Boiling Water Reactor Core Simulation With Generalized Isotopic Inventory Tracking For Actinide Management, Jack Douglas Galloway
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The computational ability to accurately simulate boiling water reactor operation under the full range of standard steady-state operation, along with the capability to fully track the isotopic distribution of any fueled region in any location in the core has been developed. This new three-dimensional node-by-node capability can help designers track, for example, a full suite of minor and major actinides, fission products, and even light elements that result from depletion, decay, or transmutations. This isotopic tracking capability is not restricted to BWRs and can be employed in the modeling of PWRs, CANDUs, and other reactor types that can be modeled …