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When station managers at Darlington and Pickering B also chose to put units there into total shutdown mode for safety reasons, the gadolinium "poison" process also kicked in. For CANDU reactors at full power, xenon load builds to about 28 mk of negative reactivity in 35 hours or so. Poison Over ride Time Equilibrium Xenon ---} Load , 25 Reactor Trip""'" 75 Xenon Load 50 (mk) • From Figure 1 itcan be seen that ifthe reactor was tripped, the Xe-135 level will peak in approximately ten hours and then gradually reduce. %PDF-1.5 %���� �����ؚ�\��uE�?�"�m����ͪ^Ҽ����zS�6e]W�y8s�+�Nӂ>��y���o������K��N�����}]�Ȯ���Sq��4 The reason that a steam generator is used is due to the fact that the heavy water coolant is radioactive from being in direct contact with the reactor core. 0000001206 00000 n 0 46 0 obj <>stream ♦ In addition, however, the CANDU design includes several types of reactivity devices for different kinds › No poison in HTS & moderator › Inherent passive sources of decay heat removal following reactor shutdown (original CANDU design) › Enhance unique safety features by incorporating new passive and active features › Utilize core and fuelling capability to introduce new RU and Th based fuels Advanced Fuel CANDU Reactor (AFCR) leverages two At the heart of the CANDU are pellets of radioactive uranium dioxide fuel assembled into pencil-shaped sheaths that, in turn, are grouped inside six-metre-long pressure tubes. In particular, CANDU 6 reactors are equipped with two independent, highly reliable shutdown systems, each of which includes two signals triggering shutdown for all initiating events. Shutdown rods. 31 16 Xenon and boron poison. CANDU reactors require about 36 hours to re-start after a xenon poison outage, due to design differences and natural uranium fuel. X�*`��/�n6�4G28!��M3E��M��ޕ�>p�\�� n��m? ii. CANDU, short for Canada Deuterium Uranium, is a nuclear reactor that uses heavy water as a moderator and coolant and natural uranium as a fuel source. However, dryout occurs at a level of flow and steam quality such that any further increase of temperature with power is "slow," rather than "fast," as described by Groeneveld and Borodin (1979). \Q����+Qn�ŗb�%�+�J �@�"����:��-��C��/.x �þ.�V�k�S��k�A?�v��U�n=�I5�#��*�ȭٔTa@(H�_�岍=:+�ӓI����&0Q%�CJ�A���e]}��$�̏���b(�� &F�PI0��������ʢ,�f0�E����1�Q���E8��AL���(+U��ѱ�[�P�J�1 0000005221 00000 n “What makes the CANDU nuclear reactor superior to other nuclear reactors?” They are much better for making weapons grade plutonium since you don’t need enriched uranium and you can easily replace fuel rods after a short neutron exposure. Before restarting the reactor n�e�:�lZR��� Figure 20.1 Xenon Build-up to Equilibrium ... CANDU Fundamentals 210 Poison override is possible in principle, and is part of the reactor design, but is usually not practical. The CANDU reactor design (or PHWR – Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor) has been developed since the 1950s in Canada, and more recently also in India. These reactors are heavy water cooled and moderated pressurized water reactors. In CANDU reactor one of the two reactor shutdown systems is the liquid poison injection system which injects the highly pressurized liquid neutron poison into the moderator tank via small holes on the nozzle pipes. Thanks for reading. Chapter 3 Nuclear Processes and Neutron Physics - No errata to report. In such applications, absorbing neutrons is normally an undesirable effect. • If the override time elapses before the system can be returned to normal, then the reactor will be poisoned out. The list is not complete. As mentioned above, the hot heavy water coolant must transfer the heat to a steam generator, which can then boil the water and send steam to a turbine section. Summary: Small edits as follows: This chapter addresses the time-dependent behaviour of nuclear reactors. xref Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) developed the CANDU reactor technology starting in the 1950s. 0000001303 00000 n These data, compiled from AECL-9881, refer to the radioactive contents of an irradiated fuel bundle from the Bruce A reactors. Instead of using a single large reactor vessel as in a PWR or BWR, the … During reactor operation, neutron irradiation of the poison causes it to "burn up" or progressively transmute to non-poison isotopes, depleting this poison effect and leaving progressively more neutrons available for sustaining … 0000001483 00000 n The development of the first CANDU reactor began in 1954 through a partnership between Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., Ontario Hydro and the Canadian General Electric Company. Chapter 4 Reactor Statics - No errata to report. 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Potential accidents associated with this refueling scheme exist. CANDU Reactivity Devices Reactor Regulating System (RRS): o 14 liquid-zone-control compartments (H2O filled) o 21 adjuster rods o 4 mechanical control absorbers o moderator “poison” (poison = element with very large neutron capture cross section, and zero fission cross section) Shutdown systems (SDS): I am having a hard time understanding the process within these CANDU reactors. When setting overpower trips in CANDU reactors, dryout is defined and measured as the first small additional rise in fuel-sheath temperature as power is being increased. In applications such as nuclear reactors, a neutron poison (also called a neutron absorber or a nuclear poison) is a substance with a large neutron absorption cross-section. • all fission products can be regarded as ‘reactor poisons’ because they all absorb neutrons to some extent and therefore reduce the multiplication factor • most fission products build up slowly as the fuel ‘burns up’, and their effect is simply part of the 19.0 Explain the following features of the reactivity change following a Reactor Control and Shutdown Emergency shutdown can be achieved by using either shutoff rods or liquid poison. xenon-135) is known as reactor poison, while the isotope that is long-lived or even stable is known as reactor slag. Dry storage costs for spent fuel from a CANDU reactor design have been compared to those for a typical pressurized light water reactor both normalized to a gross power of 1000 MW(e) [3]. 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