Publications related to Neutronics Experiments and Analysis Related to Strong Moderation Heterogeneity in LWRs

The COLIBRI experimental program in the CROCUS reactor: characterization of the fuel rods oscillator

Andreas Pautz, Vincent Pierre Lamirand, Mathieu Hursin, Carlo Fiorina, Oskari Ville Pakari, Pavel Frajtag, Daniel Godat, Axel Guy Marie Laureau, Adolfo Rais

The present article presents the mechanical characterization of the fuel rods oscillator developed for the purposes of the COLIBRI experimental program in CROCUS. COLIBRI aims at investigating the radiation noise related to fuel vibrations. The main motiva ...

2020

Experimental and numerical study of stochastic branching noise in nuclear reactors

Oskari Ville Pakari

Noise analysis applied to nuclear reactor physics is a powerful tool to investigate a reactor's kinetic parameters, and more generally underlying physical processes determining core behavior. The kinetic parameters are the coefficients of simplified time-d ...

EPFL2020

Review of kinetic modulation experiments in low power nuclear reactors

Vincent Pierre Lamirand

The safety improvement of nuclear reactors requires continuous efforts in understanding the fundamental physical quantities related to the fission process. In neutronic models, the reactor dynamics is covered by the kinetic parameters to characterize the t ...

2020

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

Synthesis of grid compliant substitute natural gas from a representative biogas mixture in a hybrid Ni/Ru catalysed reactor

Andreas Züttel, Emanuele Moioli, Marco Calizzi, Robin Tobias Andreas Mutschler, Alexandre Borsay

We demonstrate biogas upgrading towards full CO2 conversion in mild conditions in a three-step reactor system using Ru- and Ni-based catalysts. In each of the three reactor stages, the temperature is carefully controlled, thus optimizing the reaction therm ...

2020

Neutron noise experiments in the AKR-2 and CROCUS reactors for the European project CORTEX

Andreas Pautz, Vincent Pierre Lamirand, Mathieu Hursin, Carlo Fiorina, Oskari Ville Pakari, Pavel Frajtag, Daniel Godat, Axel Guy Marie Laureau, Adolfo Rais

The present article gives an overview of the first experimental campaigns carried out in the AKR-2 and CROCUS reactors within the framework of the Horizon 2020 European project CORTEX. CORTEX aims at developing innovative core monitoring techniques that al ...

E D P SCIENCES2020

Development and verification of a methodology for neutron noise response to fuel assembly vibrations

Andreas Pautz, Hakim Ferroukhi, Abdelhamid Dokhane, Gaëtan Girardin, Dionysios Chionis

Nuclear reactors are stochastic systems, in which several parameters fluctuate even during steady-state conditions. In addition, structural components like fuel assemblies, vibrate due to strong hydraulic forces. This stochasticity is the cause of the neut ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

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

Analysis of the sorption-enhanced chemical looping biomass gasification process: Performance assessment and optimization through design of experiment approach

François Maréchal, Thanaphorn Detchusananard

In this study, the performance of high-purity hydrogen production through the sorption-enhanced chemical looping gasification (SECLG) process, involving a gasifier, calciner, and air reactor, was investigated. In this process, the biomass feedstock was woo ...

2020

Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis of PWR mini-core transients in the presence of nuclear data uncertainty using non-parametric tolerance limits

Andreas Pautz, Winfried Zwermann, Alexander Aures

The impact of nuclear data uncertainties is studied for the reactor power and the reactivity during control rod withdrawal transients with reactivity insertions of 0.5

and 0.97

, respectively, for a PWR mini-core model. Multi-group cross sections, the mul ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

Neutronics Experiments and Analysis Related to Strong Moderation Heterogeneity in LWRs

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The COLIBRI experimental program in the CROCUS reactor: characterization of the fuel rods oscillator

Experimental and numerical study of stochastic branching noise in nuclear reactors

Review of kinetic modulation experiments in low power nuclear reactors

Data assimilation of post irradiation examination experiments to adjust fission yields

Synthesis of grid compliant substitute natural gas from a representative biogas mixture in a hybrid Ni/Ru catalysed reactor

Neutron noise experiments in the AKR-2 and CROCUS reactors for the European project CORTEX

Development and verification of a methodology for neutron noise response to fuel assembly vibrations

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

Analysis of the sorption-enhanced chemical looping biomass gasification process: Performance assessment and optimization through design of experiment approach

Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis of PWR mini-core transients in the presence of nuclear data uncertainty using non-parametric tolerance limits

Synthesis of grid compliant substitute natural gas from a representative biogas mixture in a hybrid Ni/Ru catalysed reactor

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

Neutron noise experiments in the AKR-2 and CROCUS reactors for the European project CORTEX

The COLIBRI experimental program in the CROCUS reactor: characterization of the fuel rods oscillator

Experimental and numerical study of stochastic branching noise in nuclear reactors

Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis of PWR mini-core transients in the presence of nuclear data uncertainty using non-parametric tolerance limits

Data assimilation of post irradiation examination experiments to adjust fission yields

Analysis of the sorption-enhanced chemical looping biomass gasification process: Performance assessment and optimization through design of experiment approach

Review of kinetic modulation experiments in low power nuclear reactors

Development and verification of a methodology for neutron noise response to fuel assembly vibrations