Speaker
Walid Dridi
(Centre National des Sciences et Technologies Nucléaires)
Description
The study was focused on the analysis of light water Small Modular Reactor (SMR) with a square-shaped fuel element. The core design, based on the Westinghouse UO2 SMR with less than 5% enrichment was developed using the open-source Monte Carlo (OpenMC) code. Neutronics analyses of the core with UO2 fuel was achieved to characterize parameters such as the radial neutron flux profile, the maximum to average flux ratio, the reactivity coefficient and critical boron concentration at beginning of life; which confirmed good performance. The results of the simulation are compared to MCNP calculations developed by Missouri S&T.
| Country OR International Organization | Tunisia |
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| Email address | walid.dridi.phd@gmail.com |
| Confirm that the work is original and has not been published anywhere else | YES |
Author
Walid Dridi
(Centre National des Sciences et Technologies Nucléaires)
Co-author
Ms
Sarra MOUMNI
(Research Laboratory on Energy and Matter for Nuclear Science Development (LR16CNSTN02), National Center for Nuclear Sciences and Technologies, Sidi Thabet Technopark)
Peer reviewing
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