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Power calibration methodology at the CROCUS reactor

Andreas Pautz, Vincent Pierre Lamirand, Oskari Ville Pakari, Pavel Frajtag, Axel Guy Marie Laureau

In the present article, we detail the method used to experimentally determine the power of the CROCUS zero-power reactor, and to subsequently calibrate its ex-core monitor fission chambers. Knowledge of the reactor power is a mandatory quantity for a safe ...

E D P SCIENCES2020

Nuclear data uncertainties for Swiss BWR spent nuclear fuel characteristics

Mathieu Hursin, Hakim Ferroukhi, Dimitri Rochman, Abdelhamid Dokhane, Alexander Vasiliev

The effect of nuclear data (fission yields, cross sections and emitted spectra) is quantified for spent nuclear fuel assemblies from a realistic boiling water reactor operated over 25 cycles. Nominal calculations are performed with the CASMO5, SIMULATE-3 a ...

2020

On data assimilation with Monte-Carlo-calculated and statistically uncertain sensitivity coefficients

Andreas Pautz, Mathieu Hursin, Daniel Jerôme Siefman

Sensitivity coefficients from Monte Carlo neutron transport codes have uncertainties that can affect nuclear data adjustments with integral experiments. This paper presents an extended version of Generalized Linear Least Squares (GLLS), called xGLLS, that ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

High-Fidelity Determination of Nuclide Inventories for Radioactive Waste Disposal

Valentyn Bykov

The general license application (RBG) for the Swiss deep geological repository will be submitted in 2024. Furthermore, the decommissioning of the nuclear power plants (NPPs) is coming soon, with the Mühleberg NPP (KKM) scheduled to shut down in 2019. In su ...

EPFL2019

Investigation of deuterium trapping and release in the JET divertor during the third ILW campaign using TDS

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Jonathan Graves, Yves Martin, Duccio Testa, Patrick Blanchard, Alessandro Pau, Henri Weisen

Selected set of samples from JET ITER-Like Wall (JET-ILW) divertor tiles exposed in 2015-2016 has been analysed using Thermal Desorption Spectrometry (TDS). The deuterium (D) amounts obtained with TDS were compared with Nuclear Reaction Analysis (NRA). The ...

Elsevier2019

Reactor simulations with nuclear data uncertainties

Andreas Pautz, Winfried Zwermann, Friederike Bostelmann, Alexander Aures

The paper demonstrates the influence of uncertainties in microscopic nuclear data on the results of reactor simulations, both for stationary and transient states. It gives an overview on the methods in use for uncertainty and sensitivity analyses with resp ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2019

Determination of the activity inventory and associated uncertainty quantification for the CROCUS zero power research reactor

Andreas Pautz, Vincent Pierre Lamirand, Mathieu Hursin, DongHyuk Lee, Pavel Frajtag

The paper describes the source term estimation of CROCUS, the zero power research reactor of EPFL, to be used for dispersion analysis under accidental conditions. To fulfil regulatory requirements, the source term of the CROCUS fuel is estimated through Mo ...

2019

Policy analysis during socio-technical energy transitions: three essays on the Swiss electricity sector

Paul Adrianus Van Baal

Global energy systems are changing rapidly. This energy transition complicates the use of traditional policy analysis methods. However, proper policy analysis and design is essential in managing the transition. This thesis takes an interdisciplinary approa ...

EPFL2019

Creation Of An Openfoam Fuel Performance Class Based On Fred And Integration Into The Gen-Foam Multi-Physics Code

Andreas Pautz, Konstantin Mikityuk, Carlo Fiorina

The FRED code is an in-house tool developed at the Paul Scherrer Institut for the so-called 1.5-D nuclear fuel performance analysis. In order to extend its field of application, this code has been re-implemented as a class of the OpenFOAM numerical library ...

AMER SOC MECHANICAL ENGINEERS2018

Shutdown dose rate measurements after the 2016 Deuterium-Deuterium campaign at JET

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Martinus Gijs, Jonathan Graves, Yves Martin, Duccio Testa, Patrick Blanchard, Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia

The EUROfusion Work Package JET3 programme, established to enable the technological exploitation of the JET experiments over the next years, includes, within the NEXP subproject, a novel Shutdown Dose Rate (SDR) experiment. Considering its ITER-relevance, ...

2018

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Determination of the activity inventory and associated uncertainty quantification for the CROCUS zero power research reactor

Andreas Pautz, Vincent Pierre Lamirand, Mathieu Hursin, DongHyuk Lee, Pavel Frajtag

2019