Abstract
We present a summary of the actinide-plus-fission-product burnup credit criticality safety licensing analysis for Expansion Stage 2 (ES2) of the external spent fuel pool at Gösgen nuclear power plant. In ES2, the nine Expansion Stage 1 storage racks currently installed in the external spent fuel pool are going to be supplemented by nine ES2 storage racks with a significantly reduced fuel assembly pitch. They are designed for loadings with fuel assemblies above a well-defined minimum required burnup. The objective of the criticality safety analysis is to calculate the minimum required burnup values for the uranium and MOX fuel assemblies to be stored in the ES2 storage racks. We use a methodology that allows us to take into account the reactivity effects due to variabilities and uncertainties of all relevant parameters involved in a burnup credit criticality safety assessment in a bounding manner. These include manufacturing tolerances of the fuel assemblies and storage racks, the irradiation histories and burnup profiles of the spent fuel assemblies, the bias of the depletion code used to calculate the isotopic inventories of the irradiated fuel, and the bias of the criticality code used to calculate the neutron multiplication factor of the considered storage configuration. A combination of different statistical procedures is used to evaluate and propagate the uncertainty information on the input parameters and translate it into statistical confidence statements about the neutron multiplication factor. It should be noted that the presented analysis is related to the first implementation of a significant burnup credit for wet storage of PWR fuel in Switzerland.
Highlights
In Expansion Stage 2 (ES2), the storage capacity of the external spent fuel pool (ESFP) at Gosgen nuclear power plant (KKG) is going to be increased from originally planned 1008 to 1206 fuel storage positions
We present a summary of the actinide-plus-fission-product burnup credit criticality safety licensing analysis for Expansion Stage 2 (ES2) of the external spent fuel pool at Gosgen nuclear power plant
We present a summary of the burnup credit criticality safety licensing analysis of ES2, in accordance with the Swiss ENSI-G20 guideline [1] and the German safety standard DIN 25471 [2], for loadings of the ESFP with uranium fuel assemblies from KKG with a maximum initial 235U-enrichment of 5.15 w/o and mixed oxide (MOX) fuel assemblies used in reactor cycles 19-33 at KKG
Summary
In Expansion Stage 2 (ES2), the storage capacity of the external spent fuel pool (ESFP) at Gosgen nuclear power plant (KKG) is going to be increased from originally planned 1008 to 1206 fuel storage positions. We present a summary of the (actinide-plus-fission-product) burnup credit criticality safety licensing analysis of ES2, in accordance with the Swiss ENSI-G20 guideline [1] and the German safety standard DIN 25471 [2], for loadings of the ESFP with uranium fuel assemblies from KKG with a maximum initial 235U-enrichment of 5.15 w/o and mixed oxide (MOX) fuel assemblies used in reactor cycles 19-33 at KKG. This analysis takes into account that the storage racks are divided into two regions. The minimum required burnup values of the uranium and MOX fuel assemblies to be loaded into the ES2 racks are the results of the criticality safety analysis
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