DESIGN OF 50 MWe HTR-PBMR REACTOR CORE AND NUCLEAR POWER PLANT FUEL USING SRAC2006 PROGRAMME. This research aims to assess the design of core and fuel of nuclear power plant type High Temperature Reactor-Pebble Bed Modular Reactor 50 MWe from the Beginning of Life (BOL) to Ending of life (EOL) with eight years operating life. The parameters that need to be analyzed in this research are the temperature distribution inside the core, quantity enrichment of U235 , fuel composition, criticality, and temperature reactivity coefficient of the core. The research was conducted with a data set of core design parameters such as nuclides density, core and fuel dimensions, and the axial temperature distribution inside the core. Using SRAC2006 program package, the effective multiplication factor (keff) values obtained from the input data that has been prepared. The results show the value of the criticality of core is proportional to the addition of U235 enrichment. The optimum enrichment obtained at 10.125% without the use of burnable poison with an excess reactivity of 3.12% at BOL. The addition Gd2O3 obtained an optimum value of 12 ppm burnable poison with an excess reactivity 0.38 %. The use of Er2O3 with an optimum value 290 ppm has an excess reactivity 1.24% at BOL. The core temperature reactivity coefficient with and without the use of burnable poison has a negative values that indicates the nature of its inherent safety.
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