CANDU Lectures - Reactor Core and Fuel Management.

This document is a compilation of notes prepared for two lectures given by the author in the winter of 1983 at the Institut de Genie Nucleaire, Ecole Polytechniue, Montreal, in the context of an introductory Nuclear Engineering course. The first lecture gives a physical description of the CANDU reactor core: the nuclear lattice, the reactivity mechanisms, their functions and properties. This lecture also covers various aspects of reactor core physics and describes different calculational methods available. The second lecture studies the numerous facets of fuel management in CANDU reactors. The important variables in fuel management, and the rules guiding the refueling strategy, are presented and illustrated by means of results obtained for the CANDU 600.