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Improved Evaluated Nuclear Data in the Resonance Region by Combining Energy Dependent Measurements and Depletion Calculations: Application to Pu-239+n, Pu-240+n and Pu-241+n

The determination of resonance parameters for neutron interactions with material is a complex process. In most cases it is very difficult to de termine an ac curate es timate of th e fu ll se t of parameters from an analysis of energy dependent cross secti ...

American Nuclear Society2024

Comparison of Bayesian Model Calibration Techniques for Future Application to Fuel Performance Behavior Models

Mathieu Hursin, Alessandro Scolaro

This paper explores data assimilation methods in the context of Bayesian Calibration for fuel performance models. It compares deterministic and stochastic approaches, concentrating on the Generalized Linear Least Squares (GLLS) method and stochastic techni ...

American Nuclear Society2024

Preliminary Validation of Intra-pin Reaction Rate Predictions from the Deterministic Transport Codes GeN-Foam and MPACT

Andreas Pautz, Mathieu Hursin, Tom Mager

In response to the scarcity of validation benchmarks for high-fidelity neutronics solvers predicting pin-resolved neutron flux distributions, the Laboratory for Reactor Physics and Systems Behaviour (LRS) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausan ...

American Nuclear Society2024

CORTEX experiments, Part II: Postprocessing of neutron noise time series to determine reliable mean and uncertainties

Andreas Pautz, Vincent Pierre Lamirand, Mathieu Hursin, Oskari Ville Pakari, Axel Guy Marie Laureau, Adolfo Rais

In this paper we present the methodology developed to analyze the detector response of neutron noise experiments performed at EPFL CROCUS and TUD AKR-2 reactors in the framework of the H2020 CORTEX project. The noise, or modulation, is induced by controlle ...

2024

OECD-NEA EXPERT GROUP ON REACTOR SYSTEMS MULTI-PHYSICS: DEVELOPMENT OF VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION GUIDELINES FOR MULTI-PHYSICS SIMULATIONS

Mathieu Hursin

Over the past decades, national and multi-national efforts have been established to develop high-fidelity, multi-physics, and multi-scale modeling and simulation (M&S) tools for design and safety challenges for existing and advanced reactors. These tools a ...

American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)2024

Application of the PSI cycle check-up methodology for full-core Monte Carlo simulations verified using pin power estimates and validated for hot zero power conditions

Mathieu Hursin

Monte Carlo (MC) based neutron transport codes provide high-fidelity numerical solutions to problems beyond the modelling capabilities of conventional core simulation methods. However, performing core-follow calculations with MC codes remains challenging d ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2024

Enhancing higher education through hybrid and flipped learning: Experiences from the GRE@T-PIONEeR project

Mathieu Hursin, Yi Zhang

GRE@T-PIONEeR is a Horizon 2020 project coordinated by Chalmers University of Technology, running over the period 2020-2024. 18 university teachers from 8 different universities located in 6 different countries gathered forces to develop and offer advanced ...

Elsevier Science Sa2024

Intra-pin Reaction Rate Measurements in the CROCUS Experimental Reactor

Andreas Pautz, Vincent Pierre Lamirand, Mathieu Hursin, Oskari Ville Pakari, Thomas Jean-François Ligonnet, Tom Mager

In response to the need for validating high-fidelity deterministic neutronics solvers capable of providing pin-resolved neutron flux distributions, intra-pin reaction rates measurements were performed in the CROCUS experimental reactor. A specially designe ...

2024

Computation of sensitivity coefficients in fixed source simulations with SERPENT2

Andreas Pautz, Mathieu Hursin

Within the scope of the implementation of a nuclear data pipeline aiming at producing the best possible evaluated nuclear data files, a major point is the production of relevant sensitivity coefficients when including integral benchmark information. Thanks ...

Elsevier Science Sa2024

Modeling of Sodium Fast Reactors Thermal Expansion Reactivity Feedback using GeN-Foam and Serpent

Mathieu Hursin, Alessandro Scolaro

Sodium-cooled fast reactors (SFRs) offer a promising alternative to conventional light-water technologies but present unique safety and design challenges. Among others, reactivity feedback effects associated to core deformations are significantly larger th ...

American Nuclear Society2024

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Improved Evaluated Nuclear Data in the Resonance Region by Combining Energy Dependent Measurements and Depletion Calculations: Application to Pu-239+n, Pu-240+n and Pu-241+n

Mathieu Hursin

American Nuclear Society2024

Application of the PSI cycle check-up methodology for full-core Monte Carlo simulations verified using pin power estimates and validated for hot zero power conditions

Mathieu Hursin

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2024

CORTEX experiments, Part II: Postprocessing of neutron noise time series to determine reliable mean and uncertainties

Andreas Pautz, Vincent Pierre Lamirand, Mathieu Hursin, Oskari Ville Pakari, Axel Guy Marie Laureau, Adolfo Rais

2024

OECD-NEA EXPERT GROUP ON REACTOR SYSTEMS MULTI-PHYSICS: DEVELOPMENT OF VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION GUIDELINES FOR MULTI-PHYSICS SIMULATIONS

Mathieu Hursin

American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)2024

Modeling of Sodium Fast Reactors Thermal Expansion Reactivity Feedback using GeN-Foam and Serpent

Mathieu Hursin, Alessandro Scolaro

American Nuclear Society2024