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Data assimilation of post-irradiation examination data for fission yields from GEF

Andreas Pautz, Mathieu Hursin, Dimitri Rochman, Daniel Jerôme Siefman

Nuclear data, especially fission yields, create uncertainties in the predicted concentrations of fission products in spent fuel which can exceed engineering target accuracies. Herein, we present a new framework that extends data assimilation methods to bur ...

EDP SCIENCES S A2020

Data assimilation of post irradiation examination experiments to adjust fission yields

Andreas Pautz, Mathieu Hursin, Daniel Jerôme Siefman

Nuclear data, especially fission yields, create uncertainties in the predicted concentrations of fission products in spent fuel. Herein, we present a new framework that extends data assimilation methods to burnup simulations by using data from post-irradia ...

E D P SCIENCES2020

A mm(3) Fiber-Coupled Scintillator for In-Core Thermal Neutron Detection in CROCUS

Andreas Pautz, Vincent Pierre Lamirand, Oskari Ville Pakari, Pavel Frajtag, Fanny Vitullo, Jean-Baptiste Mosset

This article presents the development, full-characterization, and in-core testing of a miniature neutron detector for the investigation of highly localized in-core neutronics effects in the zero-power reactor CROCUS, operated at the Ecole Polytechnique fed ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

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

Andreas Pautz, Mathieu Hursin, DongHyuk Lee

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

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

Density functional theory calculations have been performed to provide details of the structural and charge-transfer details related to the solid solution of hydrogen in (delta)-plutonium. We follow the Flanagan model that outlines the process by which hydr ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2013

Activation studies for a beta-beam Decay Ring (DR): residual dose rates during maintenance and airborne activity

Stefania Trovati

In a future beta-beam facility radioactive ions (6He and 18Ne) are produced, accelerated and then stored in a large Decay Ring (DR), where they eventually produce anti-neutrino and neutrino beams through β± decay. CERN is one of the candidate sites for the ...

2011

A benchmark on the calculation of kinetic parameters based on reactivity effect experiments in the CROCUS reactor

Rakesh Chawla

Measurements in the CROCUS reactor at EPFL, Lausanne, are reported for the critical water level and the inverse reactor period for several different sets of delayed supercritical conditions. The experimental configurations were also calculated by four diff ...

Elsevier2006

Importance of the MUSE experiments for emerging ADS concepts from the nuclear data viewpoint

Rakesh Chawla, Michaël Plaschy, Gérald Rimpault

The current investigation, conducted in the general framework of the MUSE program ("MUltiplication avec une Source Externe"), considers the representativity of a specific configuration of its fourth phase (M4SC2), which is driven by an external D(d,n)He3 o ...

Elsevier2005

Plutonium management in the medium term

Rakesh Chawla

For many years various countries with access to commercial reprocessing services have been routinely recycling plutonium as UO2/PuO 2 mixed oxide (MOX) fuel in light water reactors (LWRs). This LWR MOX recycle strategy is still widely regarded as an interi ...

American Nuclear Society2004

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