THE EFFECT OF CONTROL ROD DISPLACEMENT AGAINST THE SAFETY OF REACTOR CORE OF NUCLEAR BATTERY

THE EFFECT OF CONTROL ROD DISPLACEMENT AGAINST THE SAFETY OF REACTOR CORE OF NUCLEAR BATTERY
Ign. Djoko Irianto, Budi Santoso, Sahala Lumban Raja, Ahmad Syaukat
Center for Nuclear Technology Assessment - BATAN
Email: igndjoko@batan.go.id
ABSTRACT
THE EFFECT OF CONTROL ROD DISPLACEMENT AGAINST THE SAFETY OF REACTOR CORE OF NUCLEAR BATTERY. The Nuclear Battery reactor is small, solid-state passively cooled reactor power supply being developed to produce electricity and/or steam heat in remote locations. A fundamental design principles of the Nuclear Battery is a very high level of safety with no short-term intervention required by either human operators or engineered safety devices. One of the limiting hypothetical accident scenarios for a nuclear reactor is the rapid ejection of a single control rod from and initial state of reactor criticality. This paper presents a safety aspect of reactor core of the Nuclear Battery, and shows that the Nuclear Battery would survive a rapid reactivity insertion of a least 20 mk without compromising fuel integrity.

Keywords : Nuclear Battery, Safety Aspect, Reactor Core, Reactivity
Published : Proceeding "Pertemuan dan Presentasi Ilmiah Penelitian Dasar Ilmu Pengetahuan dan Teknologi Nuklir", Yogyakarta, 21-22 Maret 1990, ISSN No.: 0216-3128