Abstract
Reactivity decrease due to temperature rise of a single fuel rod sample was measured in the SHE-14 core using a sample heating device with purpose to verify the calculation accuracy of the Doppler effect for resonance neutron absorption in a Very High Temperature Reactor. The fuel rod sample was a stuck of coated particle fuel compacts containing 4% enriched UO2 kernels, and it was heated up to about 700°C in a sample heating tube which was placed along the axis of the core. The difference of reactivity decrease between the two same size samples of fuel rod and graphite rod due to temperature rise can be interpreted as the increased resonance neutron capture of 238U, i.e. Doppler effect. The SRAC code system was applied to the Doppler effect calculation where the collision probability method was used in the cell calculation and the one-dimensional, multi-group diffusion approximations were adopted in the core calculation. The results gave a ratio of the calculated to the measured Doppler effect of 0.93.
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