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Mixed quantum-classical dynamics with time-dependent external fields: A time-dependent density-functional-theory approach

Ursula Röthlisberger, Ivano Tavernelli, Basile Curchod

A mixed quantum-classical method aimed at the study of nonadiabatic dynamics in the presence of external electromagnetic fields is developed within the framework of time-dependent density functional theory. To this end, we use a trajectory-based descriptio ...

2010

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Former PhD students, post-docs and junior researchers of the Section de chimie et biochimie now holding positions at different universities and private companies remember the time they spent in Geneva and give an account of how this has set off and influen ...

2009

Comparative dissolution kinetics of biogenic and chemogenic uraninite under oxidizing conditions in the presence of carbonate

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Harish Veeramani, Jonathan Sharp

The long-term stability of biogenic uraninite with respect to oxidative dissolution is pivotal to the success of in situ bioreduction strategies for the subsurface remediation of uranium legacies. Batch and flow-through dissolution experiments were conduct ...

Elsevier2009

EQL3D: ERANOS based equilibrium fuel cycle procedure for fast reactors

Konstantin Mikityuk, Jiri Krepel

The advanced fast reactors of the fourth generation should be capable to breed their own fuel from poorly fissile 238U and to recycle the actinides from their own spent fuel. However, this recycling or actually the closure of fuel cycle has negative impact ...

Elsevier2009

Bulk aluminum at high pressure: A first-principles study

Nicola Marzari

The behavior of metals at high pressure is of great importance to the fields of shock physics, geophysics, astrophysics, and nuclear materials. We study here bulk crystalline aluminum from first principles at pressures up to 2500 GPa - soon within reach of ...

2008

Comparison of optimised germanium gamma spectrometry and multicollector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry for the determination of 134Cs, 137Cs and 154Eu single ratios in highly burnt UO2

Rakesh Chawla, Stefano Caruso, Fabian Jatuff

Non-destructive and destructive methods have been compared to validate their corresponding assessed accuracies in the measurement of 134Cs/137Cs and 154Eu/137Cs isotopic concentration ratios in four spent UO2 fuel samples with very high (52 and 71 GWd/t) a ...

Elsevier Science B.V.2008

Collaboration in a Video Game : Impacts of Location Awareness

Pierre Dillenbourg, Nicolas Nova

This paper presents an experimental research that focuses on collaboration in a multi-player game. The aim of the project is to study the cognitive impacts of awareness tools, i.e. artifacts that allow users of a collaborative system to be aware of what is ...

2007

Characterisation of high-burnup LWR fuel rods through gamma tomography

Stefano Caruso

Current fuel management strategies for light water reactors (LWRs), in countries with high back-end costs, progressively extend the discharge burnup at the expense of increasing the 235U enrichment of the fresh UO2 fuel loaded. In this perspective, standar ...

EPFL2007

Development and benchmarking of a 2D transient thermal model for GFR plate-type fuel

Rakesh Chawla, Konstantin Mikityuk, Petr Petkevich

Several new fuel designs are currently being considered within the generation-IV gas-cooled fast reactor (GFR) project. One of them, which is the GFR reference design, is a ceramic plate matrix with a honeycomb inner structure containing small fuel cylinde ...

Elsevier Science Ltd.2007

Adaptive Distributed Algorithms for Power-Efficient Data Gathering in Sensor Networks

Razvan Cristescu, Jugoslava Acimovic

In this work, we consider the problem of designing adaptive distributed processing algorithms in large sensor networks that are efficient in terms of minimizing the total power spent for gathering the spatially correlated data from the sensor nodes to a si ...

2005

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