Publications by Alexander Vasiliev

Monte Carlo analysis of BWR geometries using a cycle check-up methodology

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

Recent fuel anomalies at a Swiss power plant have motivated the development at PSI of the "Cycle Check-Up" (CHUP) methodology which consists in performing Monte Carlo transport calculations using nuclide compositions and thermal-hydraulic boundary conditio ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2023

Optimisation of used nuclear fuel canister loading using a neural network and genetic algorithm

Andreas Pautz, Hakim Ferroukhi, Dimitri Rochman, Alexander Vasiliev

This paper presents an approach for the optimisation of geological disposal canister loadings, combining high resolution simulations of used nuclear fuel characteristics with an articial neural network and a genetic algorithm. The used nuclear fuels (produ ...

SPRINGER LONDON LTD2021

Loading optimization for Swiss used nuclear fuel assemblies into final disposal canisters (vol 370, 110897, 2020)

Andreas Pautz, Hakim Ferroukhi, Dimitri Rochman, Alexander Vasiliev

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2021

Treatment of the implicit effect in Shark-X

Mathieu Hursin, Hakim Ferroukhi, Alexander Vasiliev

Shark-X is a set of Perl-based tools build around the deterministic neutron transport code CASMO-5, used to perform uncertainty quantification for lattice calculations at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI). While perturbing an input parameter, e.g. a cross s ...

2020

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

Loading optimization for Swiss used nuclear fuel assemblies into final disposal canisters

Andreas Pautz, Hakim Ferroukhi, Dimitri Rochman, Alexander Vasiliev

In this study, an optimization of the canister loading for used nuclear fuels is performed, solely based on their decay heat values. By taking into account the individual irradiation history for each fuel assembly, as well as with a number of assumptions o ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2020

Assessment of representativity of the PETALE experiments for validation of Swiss LWRs ex-core dosimetry calculations

Andreas Pautz, Vincent Pierre Lamirand, Hakim Ferroukhi, Axel Guy Marie Laureau, Dimitri Rochman, Alexander Vasiliev

The international experimental program PETALE will be carried out at the CROCUS research reactor of EPFL. The program aims at measuring neutron penetration in slabs made of materials composing typical LWR reactor pressure vessel. The measurements will be u ...

E D P SCIENCES2020

First Observation of the Radiative Decay Lambda(0 )(b)-> Lambda gamma

Olivier Schneider, Guido Haefeli, Yiming Li, Christoph Frei, Aurelio Bay, Frédéric Blanc, Tatsuya Nakada, Michel De Cian, Elena Graverini, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli

The radiative decay Lambda(0 )(b)-> Lambda gamma is observed for the first time using a data sample of proton-proton collisions corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.7 fb(-1) collected by the LHCb experiment at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. I ...

2019

Observation of an Excited B-c(+) State

Olivier Schneider, Aurelio Bay, Yiming Li, Guido Haefeli, Christoph Frei, Frédéric Blanc, Tatsuya Nakada, Michel De Cian, Luca Pescatore, Elena Graverini

Using pp collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 8.5 fb(-1) recorded by the LHCb experiment at center-of-mass energies of root s = 7, 8, and 13 TeV, the observation of an excited B-c(+) state in the B-c(+)pi(+)pi(-) invariant-mass spect ...

2019

Measurement of Charged Hadron Production in Z-Tagged Jets in Proton-Proton Collisions at root s=8 TeV

Olivier Schneider, Aurelio Bay, Yiming Li, Guido Haefeli, Frédéric Blanc, Christoph Frei, Tatsuya Nakada, Michel De Cian, Luca Pescatore, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul

The production of charged hadrons within jets recoiling against a Z boson is measured in proton-proton collision data at root s = 8 TeV recorded by the LHCb experiment. The charged-hadron structure of the jet is studied longitudinally and transverse to the ...

2019