@inproceedings{b9a7b93f08454934a577c1d02d4a1f88,
title = "Calculation support for industrial production of cobalt-60 at Leningrad NPP",
abstract = "Cobalt-60 is industrially produced at the Leningrad NPP by irradiation of cobalt-59 in special-purpose facilities loaded into the RBMK reactor core (all 4 units). The paper describes calculation methods used to determine the current activity of cobalt in irradiation assemblies for their timely unloading. The described peculiarities of core calculation model account for continuous refueling, overloading of irradiation assemblies and individual thermohydraulics in each channel under variation of reactor power. Fuel burnup in the core is calculated with a time step of about 24 hours. The resulting values for cobalt activity and uncertainties are presented in the paper as well. Deviation of calculated cobalt activity from measured activity is within the experimental accuracy of 10% (at confidence probability of 0.95).",
author = "Vladimir Artemov and Alexander Elshin and Alexander Ivanov and Evgeny Gorbunov and Roman Ikonnikov and Alexander Pimenov",
year = "2008",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781617821219",
series = "International Conference on the Physics of Reactors 2008, PHYSOR 08",
publisher = "Paul Scherrer Institut",
pages = "3191--3196",
booktitle = "International Conference on the Physics of Reactors 2008, PHYSOR 08",
note = "International Conference on the Physics of Reactors 2008, PHYSOR 08 ; Conference date: 14-09-2008 Through 19-09-2008",
}