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Artigo IPEN-doc 30370 Assessment of the IEA-R1 nuclear reactor using a nonstandard fuel assembly with six fuel plates of the Brazilian Multipurpose Reactor2024 - SOARES, HUMBERTO V.; TORRES, WALMIR M.; UMBEHAUN, PEDRO E.; BELCHIOR, ANTONIO; ANDRADE, DELVONEI A. deIn order to qualify the fuel plates of the Brazilian Multipurpose Reactor (RMB), a nonstandard Instrumented Fuel Assembly (IFA) was designed and is being constructed to be burned in the IEA-R1 nuclear research reactor. IFA has fuel plates of different uranium densities (10 fixed fuel plates of 3.0 gU/cm3 – IEA-R1 standard; 6 removable fuel plates of 3.7 gU/cm3 – RMB; and a central aluminum plate). This paper is the first step to demonstrate that IEA-R1 can safely operate with this IFA. To verify the IFA thermal behavior inside the IEA-R1 core during reactor operation and certify the no power peaks occurrence, the power distribution was calculated for each fuel plate. LEOPARD and HAMMER-TECHNION codes were utilized to calculate the core thermal neutron cross section and CITATION code to calculate the core power distribution. Calculations were performed for 5 MW reactor power considering the IFA placed in a core peripheral position. The RMB fuel plates average power was 4.73 % higher compared to IEA-R1 fuel plates. This was expected due to the higher density of uranium in these plates. The power of each IFA fuel plate was compared with a fresh IEA-R1 Fuel Assembly (FA) at the same core position. The power in the IFA hottest plate is only 6.79 % higher than the correspondent IEA-R1 fuel plate. The IFA power distribution was also compared to the hottest FA of the core. The power of each IFA fuel plate was below its correspondent hottest FA fuel plate. In addition, the total IFA power is 18.40 % less than the hottest FA in the core. No significant power peaks occur in the IFA during operation. As future works, thermal–hydraulic calculations will be performed considering this calculated power distribution and no hot spots are expected.Artigo IPEN-doc 29684 Computational fluid dynamics analysis of an open-pool nuclear research reactor core for fluid flow optimization using a channel box2023 - SCURO, N.L.; ANGELO, G.; ANGELO, E.; PIRO, M.H.A.; UMBEHAUN, P.E.; TORRES, W.M.; ANDRADE, D.A.A channel box installation in the IEA-R1 research reactor core was numerically investigated to increase fluid flow in fuel assemblies (FAs) and side water channels (SWCs) between FAs by minimizing bypasses in specific regions of the reactor core, which is expected to reduce temperatures and oxidation effects in lateral fuel plates (LFPs). To achieve this objective, an isothermal three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics model was created using Ansys CFX to analyze fluid flow distribution in the Brazilian IEA-R1 research reactor core. All regions of the core and realistic boundary conditions were considered, and a detailed mesh convergence study is presented. Results comparing both scenarios are presented in the percentage of use of the primary circuit pump. It is indicated that 21.4% of fluid bypass to unnecessary regions can be avoided with the channel box installation, which leads to the total mass flow from the primary circuit for all FAs increasing from 68.9% (without a channel box) to 77.6% (with a channel box). For the SWCs, responsible for cooling LFPs, an increment from 9.7% to 22.4%, avoiding all nondesired cross three-dimensional effects, was observed, resulting in a more homogeneous fluid flow and vertical velocities. It was concluded that the installation of a channel box numerically indicates an expressive mass flow increase and homogeneous fluid flow distribution for flow dynamics in relevant regions. This gives greater confidence to believe that lower temperatures, and consequently oxidation effects in LFPs, can be expected with a channel box installation.