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Evolution of water content and suction of Opalinus Clay from recovery at the drilling site to handling in the laboratory

Lyesse Laloui, Alessio Ferrari, Angelica Tuttolomondo

Advanced geotechnical engineering applications, such as shale gas extraction, CO2 geological sequestration, and geological radioactive waste storage, often involve various types of shales located at significant depths. Shales exhibit mechanical properties ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2024

Present design of the Steering Mirror Assembly (SMA) for ITER ECHUL

Timothy Goodman, René Chavan, Anastasia Xydou

In the ITER Tokamak, four Electron Cyclotron Heating Upper Launchers (ECHUL) are needed to control plasma instabilities at the rational surfaces, most importantly the q = 3/2 and q = 2/1 neoclassical tearing modes (NTMs). Each ECHUL is equipped with a set ...

2023

Design of the 590 MeV proton beamline for the proposed TATTOOS isotope production target at PSI

Mike Seidel, Hong Zhang

IMPACT (Isotope and Muon Production with Advanced Cyclotron and Target Technologies) is a proposed initiative envisaged for the high-intensity proton accelerator facility (HIPA) at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI). As part of IMPACT, a radioisotope target ...

IOP Publishing2022

Data-Driven Predictive Models: Calculational Bias in Characterization of Spent Nuclear Fuel

Characteristics of the spent nuclear fuel (SNF) are typically calculated, requiring validation a priori. The validation process relies on the difference between calculations and measurements, namely the bias. Usually, predicting the bias based on benchmark ...

EPFL2022

Analysis of the first COLIBRI fuel rods oscillation campaign in the CROCUS reactor for the European project CORTEX

Andreas Pautz, Vincent Pierre Lamirand, Mathieu Hursin, Carlo Fiorina, Oskari Ville Pakari, Pavel Frajtag, Axel Guy Marie Laureau, Adolfo Rais, Daniel Godat

The Horizon2020 European project CORTEX aims at developing an innovative core monitoring technique that allows detecting anomalies in nuclear reactors, such as excessive vibrations of core internals, flow blockage, or coolant inlet perturbations. The techn ...

2021

Design optimization of the Upper Steering Mirror Assembly (USMA) for ITER ECHUL in view of disruptive events

Timothy Goodman, René Chavan, Matteo Vagnoni, Anastasia Xydou

Four Electron Cyclotron Heating Upper Launchers (ECHUL) will be used at ITER to counteract magneto-hydrodynamic plasma instabilities by targeting them with up to 20 MW of mm-wave power at 170 GHz. The millimeter waves are guided through a set of fixed mirr ...

2021

A Hybrid Approach to Neutron Transport with Thermal-hydraulic Feedback for Reactor Transient Analysis

Alexander Aures

Understanding the time-dependent behaviour of a nuclear reactor following an intended or unintended change of the reactor conditions is of crucial importance to the safe operation of nuclear reactors. Safety evaluations of nuclear reactors involve the anal ...

EPFL2021

Preliminary design and analysis of Liquid Fuel Molten Salt Reactor using multi-physics code GeN-Foam

Carlo Fiorina

In this study, a hypothetical fast spectrum Liquid Fuel Molten Salt Reactor (LFMSR) core is modeled using the multiphysics C++ code GeN-Foam (General Nuclear Foam). GeN-Foam is based on OpenFOAM, a C++ opensource library for solution of continuum mechanics ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2020

Systematic Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis of Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Systems

Friederike Bostelmann

Sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR) technologies have the potential to guarantee energy supply and to reduce the burden of nuclear waste for future generations. For an adequate simulation of these reactor systems, well-established tools that have so far been ...

EPFL2020

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

Design and Numerical Analyses of the M4 Steering Mirrors for the ITER Electron Cyclotron Heating Upper Launcher

Timothy Goodman, René Chavan, Matteo Vagnoni, Avelino Mas Sanchez

Four electron cyclotron heating upper launchers (ECHULs) will be used at ITER to counteract magnetohydrodynamic plasma instabilities by targeting them with up to 24 MW of mm-wave power at 170 GHz. This mm-wave power is injected through eight ex-vessel (EV) ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019

Neutron spectroscopy measurements of 14 MeV neutrons at unprecedented energy resolution and implications for deuterium-tritium fusion plasma diagnostics

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Yves Martin, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Cristian Sommariva, Patrick Blanchard, Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, Albano António De Abreu E Presa De Castro E Sousa, Alessandro Pau, Philippe Janson, Thomas Willem Jan de Geus, Lorenzo Anton-Louis Talà, Pamela Solange Valdés Undurraga, Jose Felix Vega Stavro, Javier García Hernández, Hugo Augusto Penedones Fernandes, Riccardo Vannucci, Henri Weisen, Richard Pitts, Sun Hee Kim, Yao Zhou, Yann Camenen, Jan Horacek, Davide Galassi, Marco Wischmeier, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Nicola Vianello, Mikhail Maslov, Liang Yao, Federico Nespoli, David Pfefferlé, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Hamish William Patten, Samuel Lanthaler, Alexis Gérald Page, Bernhard Sieglin, Daniel Scott Alessi, Janir Nuno Ramos Antunes Da Cruz, Otto Asunta, Tao Xu, Mario Joe Lehmann, Jose Vicente Sanchez Mut, Matthew Brown, Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta, Joao André Gomes de Sá e Sousa, Wei Tang, Stefano Mattei, Lenke Horváth, Luis David Figueiredo Mascarenhas Moreira Pedrosa, Petre Alexandru Arion, Candice Megan T Young, Vlad Trifa, Stéphanie Prior, Lyne Moser, Daniel Molina Romero, Philippe Jean Buchs, Justin Robert Young, Paulo Giovane Paschoali Pereira Puglia

An accurate calibration of the JET neutron diagnostics with a 14 MeV neutron generator was performed in the first half of 2017 in order to provide a reliable measurement of the fusion power during the next JET deuterium-tritium (DT) campaign. In order to m ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2018

Development of a processing route for carbon allotrope-based TiC porous nanocomposites

Paul Bowen

Ti-foils are currently used as a spallation target material to produce radioisotopes for physics research at the ISOLDE facility at CERN. However, radioisotope production rates often decrease over time due to material degradation from high operation temper ...

2017

Analysis of reactivity worths of burnt PWR fuel samples measured in LWR-PROTEUS Phase II using a CASMO-5 reflected-assembly model

Mathieu Hursin, Hakim Ferroukhi, Daniel Jerôme Siefman

The reactivity loss of PWR fuel with burnup has been investigated experimentally by measuring the reactivity worths of highly-burnt fuel samples in a PWR test lattice in the framework of the LWR-PROTEUS Phase II program. Seven UO2 samples cut from fuel rod ...

2017

Assessment of solvent capsule-based healing for woven fibre-reinforced epoxies

Erica Manfredi

Structural fibre-reinforced composites based on brittle matrices such as epoxy resins may be subject to short-term subcritical matrix damage that develops with time to the point where it may compromise the integrity of the structure. Currently, components ...

EPFL2015

Optimised non-invasive method to determine 238U-captures-to-total-fissions in reactor fuel

Rakesh Chawla, Fabian Jatuff

High-resolution gamma spectroscopy was performed on individual fuel rods of a fresh, highly heterogeneous Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) fuel assembly, after irradiation at low power in the PROTEUS reactor at PSI, to determine the ratio of neutron captures in ...

Elsevier2006