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Nuclear Science NEA/NSC/DOC(2002)6 VVER-1000 Coolant Transient Benchmark PHASE 1 (V1000CT-1) Vol. I: Main Coolant Pump (MCP) switching On – Final Specifications Boyan Ivanov and Kostadin Ivanov Nuclear Engineering Program, USA Pavlin Groudev and Malinka Pavlova INRNE, Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Vasil Hadjiev Nuclear Power Plant Kozloduy, Bulgaria US Department of Energy NUCLEAR ENERGY AGENCY ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT Pursuant to Article 1 of the Convention signed in Paris on 14th December 1960, and which came into force on 30th September 1961, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) shall promote policies designed: − to achieve the highest sustainable economic growth and employment and a rising standard of living in Member countries, while maintaining financial stability, and thus to contribute to the development of the world economy; − to contribute to sound economic expansion in Member as well as non-member countries in the process of economic development; and − to contribute to the expansion of world trade on a multilateral, non-discriminatory basis in accordance with international obligations. 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FOREWORD The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (OECD/NEA) has completed under US NRC sponsorship a PWR Main Steam Line Break (MSLB) Benchmark involving thermal-hydraulic/neutron kinetics codes. Recently, another OECD-NRC coupled code benchmark was initiated for a BWR turbine trip (TT) transient. During the course of defining and co-ordinating the OECD-NRC PWR MSLB and BWR TT benchmarks a systematic approach has been established to validate best-estimate coupled codes. This approach employs a multi-level methodology that not only allows for a consistent and comprehensive validation process but also contributes to determine additional requirements and to prepare a basis for licensing application of the coupled calculations for a specific reactor type, i.e. establishing safety expertise in analysing reactivity transients. Professional communities have been established during the course of these benchmark activities that led to in-depth discussions of the different aspects required for assessing neutron kinetics modelling relative to a given reactor, and finally on how to implement best-estimate methodologies for transient analysis using coupled codes. The above examples demonstrate the benefit of establishing such international coupled standard problems for each type of reactor. In the framework of the United States Department of Energy (DOE) International Nuclear Safety Program (INSP), a project was started in 2001 with an overall objective to assess computer codes used in the safety analysis of VVER power plants, specifically for their use in analysing reactivity transients in a VVER-1000 reactor. As a result, a coupled benchmark problem based on data from the Bulgarian Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) has been developed for the purpose of assessing neutron kinetics modelling for a VVER-1000 reactor. This problem is being analysed using both point kinetics and three-dimensional kinetics models. Based on the experience accumulated in safety analyses of western-type reactors (see the examples given above for PWR and BWR international standard benchmark problems), it was proposed that Phase 1 of the VVER-1000 benchmark problem be extended to an international standard problem. During the Starter International VVER-1000 Benchmark Meeting, which took place on 30 May 2002 in Dresden, Germany, this benchmark was proposed and accepted by the participants. It will be labelled as VVER-1000 Coolant Transient Benchmark (V1000CT) and consist of two phases. Phase 1 (V1000CT-1), led by Pennsylvania State University (PSU), is a main coolant pump (MCP) switching on transient when the three other MCPs are in operation. Phase 2 (V1000CT-2), led by the French Commissariat à l’énergie atomique (CEA), includes calculation of coolant mixing experiments and a main steam line break (MSLB) analysis. Both PSU and the CEA are working in co-operation with the Bulgarian Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy (INRNE). The sponsors of the benchmark are the OECD/NEA, US DOE, CEA and IRSN. The Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) provides technical support and the Atomic Energy Research (AER) Working Group D participates in the benchmark activities. This report provides the specifications for the international, coupled VVER-1000 Coolant Transient (V1000CT-1) benchmark problem. The specification report has been prepared jointly by PSU and INRNE in co-operation with leading specialists from KNPP. The work is sponsored by the 3 US DOE, the OECD/NEA, and the Nuclear Engineering Program at PSU, and is being performed with the assistance of Argonne National Laboratory (ANL). The reference MCP switching on problem chosen for simulation in a VVER-1000 is an experiment that was conducted by Bulgarian and Russian engineers during the plant-commissioning phase at the KNPP Unit 6 as part of the start-up tests. The test was carried out due to its importance for the safety of the VVER-1000, model 320 reactor at the NPP. This event is characterised by a rapid increase in coolant flow through the core resulting in a coolant temperature decrease, which is spatially dependent. All necessary information to model and analyse the transient with best-estimate system thermal-hydraulic codes using both point kinetics and three-dimensional kinetics models is provided in the report. A KNPP Unit 6 RELAP5 thermal-hydraulic skeleton input deck, as well as the KNPP 6 RELAP5 four-loop model nodalisation diagram are also provided in Appendix A. They represent part of the source information that provides the plant data. They are derived from the baseline VVER-1000 RELAP5 input deck shown in Appendix D, developed and validated by INRNE for KNNP Unit 6. This baseline input deck is considered part of the data specification. The specification covers the three exercises of Phase 1 and the required output information is specified for each exercise. In addition, a CD-ROM is also being prepared with the transient boundary conditions, decay heat values as a function of time, and cross-section