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ESTIMATION OF THE RADIOACTIVE SOURCE TERM FROM RDE ACCIDENT POSTULATION Pande Made Udiyani; Ihda Husnayani; Mohamad Budi Setiawan; Sri Kuntjoro; Hery Adrial; Amir Hamzah
JURNAL TEKNOLOGI REAKTOR NUKLIR TRI DASA MEGA Vol 21, No 3 (2019): October 2019
Publisher : Pusat Teknologi Dan Keselamatan Reaktor Nuklir (PTKRN)

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The design process of Experimental Power Reactor (Reaktor Daya Eksperimental/RDE) has been carried out by BATAN for the last five years, adopting HTGR-type reactor with thermal power of 10 MW. RDE is designed with the reference of similar reactor, namely HTR-10. During this process, source term estimation is required to prove the safety of RDE design, as well as to fulfill the concept of As Low As Reasonably Achievable (ALARA) in radiation protection. The source term is affected by the magnitude of the radioactive substances released from the reactor core due to an accident. Conservative accident postulations on the RDE are water ingress and depressurization accidents. Based on these postulations, source term estimation was performed. It follows the mechanistic source term flow, with conservative assumptions for the radioactive release of fuel into the coolant, reactor building, and finally discharged into the environment. Assumptions for the calculation are taken from conservative removable parameters.The result of source term calculation due to the water ingress accident for Xe-133 noble gas is 8.97E+12 Bq, Cs-137 is 3.59E+07 Bq, and I-131 is 4.34E+10 Bq. As for depressurization accident, the source term activity for Xe-133 is 3.90E+13Bq, Cs-137 is 1.56E+07 Bq, and I-131 is 1.89E+10Bq. The source term calculation results obtained in this work shows a higher number compared to the HTR-10 source term used as a reference. The difference is possibly due to the differences in reactor inventory calculations and the more conservative assumptions for source term calculation.Keywords: RDE, HTGR, Radioactive, Source term, accident
CRITICALITY ANALYSIS OF URANIUM STORAGE FACILITY WITH FORMATION RACKS Sri Kuntjoro
JURNAL TEKNOLOGI REAKTOR NUKLIR TRI DASA MEGA Vol 19, No 1 (2017): Februari 2017
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Uranium materials are needed for the uranium fuel production of research reactors and radioisotope. Before the uranium material is used, it is stored in the storage facility. One of the prerequisites for uranium material storage facilities is that it must be in the sub-critical condition. The purpose of this study is to analyze the criticality condition of uranium material storage facility located in PT. Inuki (Persero) and to ensure that the criticality condition is always in sub-critical state. Criticality analysis was performed using MCNP-5 program to determine the level of criticality of the three uranium material storage facilities at initial conditions and conditions after adding the storage racks. For analysing storage facilities 1 and 2, three scenarios of container on the storage rack formations were considered. Meanwhile, for analysing the storage facility 3, one scenario was considered. The results confirm that all strorages at initial condition and after adding storage racks formation were still in sub-critical condition (k-eff<1). These results are then used as the basis for the uranium materials management. It is also used as a basis for issuing an operational license by the nuclear energy regulatory body (BAPETEN).Keywords : criticality, uranium storage facility, k-eff ANALISIS KRITIKALITAS DI FASILITAS PENYIMPANAN BAHAN URANIUM DENGAN FORMASI PENGATURAN RAK. Bahan uranium dibutuhkan untuk produksi bahan bakar reaktor penelitian dan radioisotop. Bahan uranium sebelum digunakan terlebih dahulu disimpan pada fasilitas penyimpanan. Salah satu prasyarat fasilitas penyimpanan bahan uranium adalah fasilitas tersebut harus dalam kondisi sub-kritis. Bila kondisi kritis terjadi mengakibatkan proses fissi pada bahan uranium tidak terkendali, sehingga akan menimbulkan suhu yang sangat tinggi. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menganalisa kondisi kritikalitas dari fasilitas penyimpanan bahan uranium yang berada di PT. INUKI (Persero) untuk menjamin fasilitas tersebut dalam kondisi sub-kritis. Analisis kritikalitas dilakukan menggunakan program MCNP-5 untuk mengetahui tingkat kritikalitas dari tiga fasilitas penyimpanan bahan uranium untuk kondisi awal dan kondisi setelah ditambahkan rak penyimpanan. Untuk fasilitas penyimpanan 1 dan 2 dibuat tiga skenario pengaturan container pada rak penyimpanan, sedangkan pada fasilitas penyimpanan 3 dilakukan 1 skenario.  Hasil ini menunjukkan seluruh fasilitas penyimpanan pada kondisi awal dan setelah ditambah rak penyimpanan dalam kondisi sub-kritis (k-eff<1). Hasil tersebut selanjutnya dipergunakan sebagai dasar untuk menyusun manejemen pengelolaan bahan uranium. Selain itu juga digunakan sebagai dasar untuk pembuatan ijin dari badan pengawas (BAPETEN).Kata Kunci : kritikalitas, fasilitas penyimpanan berbahan uranium,  k-eff
Estimation Of Routine Discharge Of Radionuclides On Power Reactor Experimental RDE P.M. Udiyani; Sri Kuntjoro
Urania : Jurnal Ilmiah Daur Bahan Bakar Nuklir Vol 23, No 1 (2017): Februari 2017
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Experimental power reactor (RDE) which is planned to be constructed by BATAN is a kind of High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactor (HTGR) with 10 MWth power. HTGR is a helium gas-cooled reactor with TRISO-coated fuel that is able to confine fission products remained in the core. Although the fission products released into the environment are very small, in order to comply the regulations the study about environmental radiation on normal or routine operation condition need to be performed. Estimation of radiology in the environment involves the source term released into the environment under routine operation condition. The purpose of this study is to estimate the source term released into the environment based on postulation of normal or routine operations of RDE. The research approach starts with an assumption that there are defects and impurities in the TRISO fuel because of limitation during the fabrication. Mechanism of fission products release from the fuel to the environment was created based on the safety features design of RDE. Radionuclides inventories in the reactor were calculated using ORIGEN-2 whose library has been modified for HTGR type, and the assumptions of defects of the TRISO fuel and release fraction for each compartment of RDE safety system used a reference parameter. The results showed that the important source terms of RDE are group of noble gases (Kr and Xe), halogen (I), Sr, Cs, H-3, and Ag. Activities of RDE source terms for routine operations have no significant difference with the HTGR source terms with the same power.Keywords: routine discharge, radionuclide, source term, RDE, HTGR