Publications related to Reactor simulations with nuclear data uncertainties

Design of an Open-Loop Pile-Oscillation Program in the CROCUS Reactor

Andreas Pautz, Vincent Pierre Lamirand, Thomas Jean-François Ligonnet, Axel Guy Marie Laureau

As a follow-up to the CEA-EPFL PETALE experimental program on stainless steel nuclear data, the EPFL initiated an open-loop pile-oscillation experimental program in the CROCUS reactor: BLOOM. A reproduction of the critical experiments of PETALE, the progra ...

2024

ZigZag: Universal Sampling-free Uncertainty Estimation Through Two-Step Inference

Nikita Durasov, Minh Hieu Lê, Nik Joel Dorndorf

Whereas the ability of deep networks to produce useful predictions on many kinds of data has been amply demonstrated, estimating the reliability of these predictions remains challenging. Sampling approaches such as MC-Dropout and Deep Ensembles have emerge ...

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 ...

Lausanne2024

Advanced methodologies for modeling and assessment of SFR safety functions

Janos Bodi

The present doctoral work was performed to contribute to the conceptual design development and safety assessment of a Generation IV Sodium Fast Reactor (SFR) in the frame of the European Sodium Fast Reactor Safety Measures Assessment and Research Tools (ES ...

EPFL2022

A Hybrid Approach to Neutron Transport with Thermal-hydraulic Feedback for Reactor Transient Analysis

Alexander Aures

Understanding the time-dependent behaviour of a nuclear reactor following an intended or unintended change of the reactor conditions is of crucial importance to the safe operation of nuclear reactors. Safety evaluations of nuclear reactors involve the anal ...

EPFL2021

Investigation of the Fission Matrix methodology using the Monte Carlo code Serpent 2 and application to the CROCUS reactor

The Laboratory ofReactor Physics and System Behaviour (LRS) at EPFL is finalising the preparation of a detection system for dynamic studies on the CROCUS experimental reactor. In order to model the temporal behaviour of the reactor within the framework of ...

2021

Delayed gamma fraction determination in the zero power reactor CROCUS

Andreas Pautz, Vincent Pierre Lamirand, Oskari Ville Pakari, Pavel Frajtag, Tom Mager

Gamma rays are an inextricable part of a nuclear reactor's radiation field, and as such require characterization for dose rate estimations required for the radiation protection of personnel, material choices, and the design of nuclear facilities. Most comm ...

EDP SCIENCES S A2021

Systematic Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis of Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Systems

Friederike Bostelmann

Sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR) technologies have the potential to guarantee energy supply and to reduce the burden of nuclear waste for future generations. For an adequate simulation of these reactor systems, well-established tools that have so far been ...

EPFL2020

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

Power calibration methodology at the CROCUS reactor

Andreas Pautz, Vincent Pierre Lamirand, Oskari Ville Pakari, Pavel Frajtag, Axel Guy Marie Laureau

In the present article, we detail the method used to experimentally determine the power of the CROCUS zero-power reactor, and to subsequently calibrate its ex-core monitor fission chambers. Knowledge of the reactor power is a mandatory quantity for a safe ...

E D P SCIENCES2020

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Design of an Open-Loop Pile-Oscillation Program in the CROCUS Reactor

ZigZag: Universal Sampling-free Uncertainty Estimation Through Two-Step Inference

Computation of sensitivity coefficients in fixed source simulations with SERPENT2

Advanced methodologies for modeling and assessment of SFR safety functions

A Hybrid Approach to Neutron Transport with Thermal-hydraulic Feedback for Reactor Transient Analysis

Investigation of the Fission Matrix methodology using the Monte Carlo code Serpent 2 and application to the CROCUS reactor

Delayed gamma fraction determination in the zero power reactor CROCUS

Systematic Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis of Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Systems

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

Power calibration methodology at the CROCUS reactor

Computation of sensitivity coefficients in fixed source simulations with SERPENT2

Advanced methodologies for modeling and assessment of SFR safety functions

Design of an Open-Loop Pile-Oscillation Program in the CROCUS Reactor

ZigZag: Universal Sampling-free Uncertainty Estimation Through Two-Step Inference

A Hybrid Approach to Neutron Transport with Thermal-hydraulic Feedback for Reactor Transient Analysis

Investigation of the Fission Matrix methodology using the Monte Carlo code Serpent 2 and application to the CROCUS reactor

Delayed gamma fraction determination in the zero power reactor CROCUS

Systematic Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis of Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Systems

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

Power calibration methodology at the CROCUS reactor