Computer Programs

IAEA1228 PULSTRI-1

IAEA1228 PULSTRI-1

PULSTRI-1, Mixed Core Triga Reactor Pulse Calculation

NAME OR DESIGNATION OF PROGRAM, COMPUTER, DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM OR FUNCTION, METHOD OF SOLUTION, RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PROBLEM, TYPICAL RUNNING TIME, UNUSUAL FEATURES OF THE PROGRAM, RELATED AND AUXILIARY PROGRAMS, STATUS, REFERENCES, MACHINE REQUIREMENTS, LANGUAGE, OPERATING SYSTEM UNDER WHICH PROGRAM IS EXECUTED, OTHER PROGRAMMING OR OPERATING INFORMATION OR RESTRICTIONS, NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHORS, MATERIAL, CATEGORIES

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1. NAME OR DESIGNATION OF PROGRAM: PULSTRI-1

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2. COMPUTERS

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Program name	Package id	Status	Status date
PULSTRI-1	IAEA1228/01	Tested	22-MAR-1994

Machines used:

Package ID	Orig. computer	Test computer
IAEA1228/01	IBM PC	PC-80486

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3. DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM OR FUNCTION

A computer program for mixed core TRIGA Reactor pulse calculations (maximum temperature, prompt energy, peak power).

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4. METHOD OF SOLUTION

Pulse is calculated in adiabatic Fuchs-Hansen approximation. Temperature and burn-up dependence of fuel temperature reactivity coefficient and heat capacity is considered.

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5. RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PROBLEM

The code is provided with data base for four different TRIGA fuel types:
- STANDARD (20% enrichment, 8.5 W/O of U)
- STANDARD (20% enrichment, 12. W/O of U)
- FLIP     (70% enrichment, 8.5 W/O of U)
- LEU      (20% enrichment, 20. W/O of U)
and two types of reflector:  WATER and GRAPHITE.

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6. TYPICAL RUNNING TIME: Few seconds on IBM/PC-AT Compatible Computer.

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NEA-DB executed the test case included in this package on a PC/80486 in 2 seconds and on a DEC/VAX-6000 computer in 2.7 seconds.

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7. UNUSUAL FEATURES OF THE PROGRAM:

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8. RELATED AND AUXILIARY PROGRAMS:

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9. STATUS

Package ID	Status date	Status
IAEA1228/01	22-MAR-1994	Tested at NEADB

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10. REFERENCES

- M. Ravnik, M.Junlanan
  PULSTRI: A computer program for mixed core TRIGA reactor pulse
  calculations; OAEP, Bangkok, (September 1989)
- Glasstone-Sesonske
  Nuclear Reactor Engineering; Van Nostrand Reinhold (1967)
- M.T. Simnad
  The U-ZrHx Alloy; GA, E-117-833 (February 1980)
- I. Mele, M. Ravnik
  TRIGAP Computer Program - J. Stefan Institute Report; IJS-DP-4238
  (December 1985)

IAEA1228/01, included references:

- M. Ravnik, I. Mele and B. Zefran:
  PULSTRI-1 - A Computer Program for TRIGA Reactor Pulse
  Calculations, Program Manual
  IJS-DP-5756 (January 30, 1990).

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11. MACHINE REQUIREMENTS: IBM/PC with 540K main memory.

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The PC configuration was a DELL 466/L with 80486 processor, 66 MHz, and 8 Mbytes of RAM. The file size of the executable is 540 Kbytes.

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12. PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE(S) USED

Package ID	Computer language
IAEA1228/01	FORTRAN-77

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13. OPERATING SYSTEM UNDER WHICH PROGRAM IS EXECUTED: Standard

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VAX/VMS V5.5-2. MS-DOS 6.0 with Fortran compilers MicroSoft FORTRAN V.5.1 and Lahey F77L-EM/32 V.5.11.

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14. OTHER PROGRAMMING OR OPERATING INFORMATION OR RESTRICTIONS:

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15. NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHORS

     Matjaz RAVNIK, Irena MELE, Bojan ZEFRAN, Slavko SLAVIC
     "Jozef Stefan" Institute
     Reactor Physics Division
     61111 Ljubljana
     P.O. Box 100
     Jamova 39
     YUGOSLAVIA

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16. MATERIAL AVAILABLE

IAEA1228/01

File name	File description	Records
IAEA1228_01.001	Information file	122
IAEA1228_01.002	PULSTRI.FOR Source file	886
IAEA1228_01.003	PULSTRI.EXE Compiled program	0
IAEA1228_01.004	PULSTRI.TIN Test input	22
IAEA1228_01.005	PULSTRI.TOU Test output	73
IAEA1228_01.006	SAMPLRUN.BAT batch file to compile and run	4
IAEA1228_01.007	DOS file-names	6

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17. CATEGORIES

F. Space - Time Kinetics, Coupled Neutronics - Hydrodynamics - Thermodynamics

Keywords: pulsed reactors, reactor kinetics, temperature feedback.