NT & RP Journal
STABILITY CHARACTERISTICS OF THE 500 MW INDIAN PFBR
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Vol. XXX, No. 2, Pp. 83-163
June 2015
UDC 621.039+614.876:504.06
ISSN 1451-3994

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Pages: 113-123

Authors:
Vijayan L. Anuraj, Goverapet S. Srinivasan, and Kunhiraman Devan

Abstract


After the successful operation of the fast breeder test reactor for over two decades, India is now nearing the completion of a 500 MW (electrical) prototype fast breeder reactor. This commercial scale power reactor is a sodium-cooled, pool-type, mixed-oxide fuelled fast reactor. The stability characteristics of the reactor are an important safety aspect to be studied. In the present work, linear stability of the prototype fast breeder reactor analysis is carried out using the transfer function method, while the stability of the system is checked via the Nyquist criteria. For the completeness of the study, transient analysis with various kinds of reactivity perturbations was carried out. The response of the system in both cases indicated that the system is stable

Key words: liquid metal fast breeder reactor, linear stability, prototype fast breeder reactor, Nyquist plot

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