HTTR制御棒引抜き試験の動特性解析(受託研究)

Core dynamics analysis of control rod withdrawal test in HTTR (Contract Research)

高田 英治*; 中川 繁昭  ; 高松 邦吉  ; 島川 聡司; 野尻 直喜 ; 藤本 望

Takada, Eiji*; Nakagawa, Shigeaki; Takamatsu, Kuniyoshi; Shimakawa, Satoshi; Nojiri, Naoki; Fujimoto, Nozomu

高温ガス炉の固有の安全性を定量的に実証するため、高温工学試験研究炉(High Temperature Engineering Test Reactor: HTTR)において、反応度投入及び炉心除熱量減少を試験として実機の原子炉で生じさせる安全性実証試験を実施している。安全性実証試験の1つである制御棒引抜き試験について、1点炉近似モデルにより試験時の動特性解析を実施した。実測値と解析値の比較から、1点炉近似モデルが試験の結果を再現できることを確認した。また、添加反応度,温度係数,物性値等の各パラメータについて、制御棒引抜き事象に対する原子炉動特性への感度を明らかにした。

The HTTR (High Temperature Engineering Test Reactor), which has thermal output of 30MW, coolant inlet temperature of 395C and coolant outlet temperature of 850C/950C, is a first high temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) in Japan. The HTGR has a high inherent safety potential to accident condition. Safety demonstration tests using the HTTR are underway in order to demonstrate such excellent inherent safety features of the HTGR. The reactivity insertion test demonstrates that rapid increase of reactor power by withdrawing the control rod is restrained by only the negative reactivity feedback effect without operating the reactor power control system, and the temperature transient of the reactor is slow. The best estimated analyses have been conducted to simulate reactor transients during the reactivity insertion test. A one-point core dynamics approximation with one fuel channel model is applied to this analysis. It was found that the analytical model for core dynamics could simulate the reactor power behavior.