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Source: Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University – Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University –
From March 10 to 14, the Institute of Atomic Energy of the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI hosted a case championship with the support of the State Research Center of the Russian Federation IPPE. The strongest teams from SPbPU, ISPU, KSPEU, ITAE and other leading universities of the country gathered in Obninsk. The participants solved computational problems related to current issues of nuclear energy.
The case included ten tasks related to the closed nuclear fuel cycle (CNFC). The guys compiled fuel balances, explained the nuclide compositions of the loads, determined the activity of the components of spent nuclear fuel (SNF). Many factors had to be taken into account: issues of fuel burnup, production of plutonium isotopes and minor actinides, SNF handling, as well as economic aspects of closing the fuel cycle.
The honor of the Polytechnic University was defended by the “Spectrum” team. It included 4th-year students of the Higher School of Nuclear and Thermal Energy of the Institute of Power Engineering Ilya Antonov, Ruslan Gorelenkov, Denis Yurin, Andrey Lemeshev and Sofia Shmachko. The Polytechnic students successfully mastered and applied the SERPENT code, which allowed them to perform calculations with a high degree of accuracy and validity. The guys not only coped with the tasks, but also proposed solutions that went beyond the requirements of the case. Based on the results of the defense, the SPbPU team took first place.
Each of us gained a lot of new knowledge: from determining the specific activity of fresh spent nuclear fuel to comparing the savings in the consumption of natural uranium by different types of regenerated fuel. We would like to thank the organizers of the case championship for the high level of preparation of the event, for the opportunity to demonstrate our skills in the field of a closed nuclear fuel cycle, – shared Denis Yurin.
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