Publications by Stefano Caruso

Validation of spent nuclear fuel decay heat calculations using Polaris, ORIGEN and CASMO5

Andreas Pautz, Dimitri Rochman, Stefano Caruso

Decay heat calculations of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) using Polaris and ORIGEN codes in the SCALE code sys-tem, and CASMO5 code, are validated using measurements from the Clab and GE-Morris facilities. Multiple hypothesis testing, relying on permutations and ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

Uncertainty analyses of spent nuclear fuel decay heat calculations using SCALE modules

Andreas Pautz, Dimitri Rochman, Stefano Caruso

Decay heat residuals of spent nuclear fuel (SNF), i.e., the differences between calculations and measurements, were obtained previously for various spent fuel assemblies (SFA) using the Polaris module of the SCALE code system. In this paper, we compare dec ...

2021

Response of irradiated nuclear fuel rods to quasi-static and dynamic loads

Andreas Pautz, Stefano Caruso, Efstathios Vlassopoulos

This paper presents the methodology applied for the experimental and numerical investigation of the mechanical response of spent nuclear fuel rods under static and dynamic loads. The experimental activities were conducted at the JRC Karlsruhe where a 3-poi ...

CARL HANSER VERLAG2018

Determination of within-rod caesium and europium isotopic distributions in high burnup fuel rods through computerised gamma-ray emission tomography

Rakesh Chawla, Stefano Caruso, Fabian Jatuff

Computerised gamma-ray emission tomography has been applied to single PWR UO2 fuel rods, with pellet averaged burnups of 52, 71, 91 and 126 GWd/t respectively, for the determination of 134Cs, 137Cs and 154Eu internal radial distributions. State-of-the-art ...

Elsevier Science B.V.2009

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

Nondestructive determination of fresh and spent nuclear fuel rod density distributions through computerised gamma-ray transmission tomography

Rakesh Chawla, Stefano Caruso, Fabian Jatuff

The morphology of single PWR UO2 fuel rods has been investigated by employing computerised gamma-ray transmission tomography. Four highly burnt fuel rods of different burnups (from 52 GWd/t to 126GWd/t) and a fresh rod have been investigated. This paper de ...

Atomic Energy Society of Japan2008

Validation of 134Cs, 137Cs and 154Eu single ratios as burnup monitors for ultra-high burnup UO2 fuel

Rakesh Chawla, Stefano Caruso, Fabian Jatuff

A measurement station has been built for the non-destructive investigation of burnt fuel rod segments through high-resolution gamma spectrometry. Four UO2 pressurised water reactor fuel rod segments with different burnup levels between 50 and 100GWd/t and ...

Elsevier2007

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