The paper describes the application of the ATLAS simulator environment and the coupled three dimensional (3D) neutron-kinetics and thermal-hydraulics system code QUABOX/CUBBOX-ATHLET for a boiling water reactor (BWR) plant transient. A turbine trip (TT) transient is simulated and analyzed once with the 3D core model and once with the point kinetics (PK) model using data generated on the basis of the 3D calculations by the kinetics data generation system SIGMAS developed in GRS. The comparison shows a very good agreement, which is an important precondition for performing transient analyses with an on-line switch from PK to 3D calculation for a BWR plant transient within the ATLAS simulator.

Volume Subject Area:
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Neutronics Methods and Coupled Codes
Topics:
Boiling water reactors, Transients (Dynamics), Neutrons, Switches, Thermal hydraulics, Transient analysis, Turbines
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