Method of determining a fresh fuel bundle design for a core...

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2004-12-30

2009-08-11

Jones, Hugh (Department: 2128)

Data processing: structural design, modeling, simulation, and em

Simulating nonelectrical device or system

C434S218000, C434S365000, C703S001000, C376S245000, C376S256000, C376S259000, C376S267000

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07574337

ABSTRACT:
A method for determining a fresh fuel bundle design for a core of a nuclear reactor may include defining a plurality of inputs including user-defined target conditions for evaluating one or more reference fresh fuel bundle designs for each of N bundle groups, and generating a response surface based on making single rod-type changes in each (i,j) rod location of each bundle of a given reference bundle design being evaluated for each of the N bundle groups. A search algorithm may be iterated to evaluate a given combination of multiple rod-type changes made simultaneously across each of the N bundle groups using the generated response surface to determine an accepted fuel bundle design for each of the N bundle groups that satisfies the user-defined target conditions.

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