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Conference Article: Main features of the BN-800 passive shutdown rods
Alexandrov, Yu.K.; Rogov, V.A.; Shabalin, A.S. (Experimental Machine Building Bureau (OKBM), Nizhny Novgorod (Russian Federation))Abstract
The major design characteristics of hydraulically suspended shutdown rods, as well as the principles of their operation and test results for the mock-up scram rods, in combination with the simulations of the BN - 800 reactor internal structures providing for the rods operation, are given.
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key words: bn-800 reactor; control elements; design; operation; reactor shutdown; scram rods; specifications
- Reference:
- Technical committee meeting on absorber materials, control rods and designs of backup reactivity shutdown systems for breakeven cores and burner cores for reducing plutonium stockpiles. Obninsk (Russian Federation). 3-7 Jul 1995
- International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria)
- IAEA-TECDOC--884, pp:105-110
- International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria)