Proposal for development of regulatory basis of engineering factor evaluation for the VVER core parameters

L.Shishkov, S.Tsyganov, V.Dementiev, RRC “Kurchatov Institute”, Russia

19th Symposium of AER on VVER Reactor Physics and Reactor Safety (2009, Varna, Bulgaria)
Core Operation, experiments and code validation

Abstract

The paper states that the regulatory documentation, as a rule, do not give explicit recommendations on formation techniques of engineering safety factors for design limited parameters of normal operation (
). The AER countries use different approaches to
evaluation (sometimes even one country in relation of various power units).

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