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High brightness neutron source optimized for very high pulsed magnetic field experiments

Conducting neutron scattering experiments in the presence of high pulsed magnetic fields, namely above 40 T, provides valuable information about the magnetic structures of materials. However, these experiments are challenging and time-consuming because the ...

EPFL2024

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

DEMO port plug design and integration studies

Minh Quang Tran

The EUROfusion Consortium established in 2014 and composed by European Fusion Laboratories, and in particular the Power Plant Physics and Technology department aims to develop a conceptual design for the Fusion DEMOnstration Power Plant, DEMO. With respect ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2017

Appraisal of Core Analysis Methods against Zero-Power Experiments on Full-Scale BWR Fuel Assemblies

Flavio Dante Giust

The present doctoral research aims at the appraisal of nodal core simulators used for the calculation of commercial boiling water reactor (BWR) cores, against measurements carried out at the Paul Scherrer Institute under the LWR-PROTEUS experimental progra ...

EPFL2012

Experimental Comparisons of 3D Reconstructed Pin-Power Distributions in Full-Scale BWR Fuel Assemblies

Rakesh Chawla, Flavio Dante Giust

In this paper, reconstructed local fission rates obtained with the two-group nodal diffusion program PRESTO-2, used at the Leibstadt Nuclear Power Plant (KKL) in Switzerland, are compared with experimental results and MCNPX calculations. The experimental f ...

2011

Non-intrusive plasma diagnostics for the deposition of large area thin film silicon

Christoph Hollenstein, Alan Howling, Benjamin Strahm

Plasma diagnostics for large area, industrial RF parallel-plate reactors can be useful for process optimization and monitoring, provided that their implementation is practical and non-intrusive. For instance, Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) absorption sp ...

Elsevier2009

Management of actinide waste inventories in nuclear phase-out scenarios

Rakesh Chawla, Marco Cometto

The improvement of the "radiological cleanliness" of nuclear energy is a primary goal in the development of advanced reactors and fuel cycles. The multiple recycling of actinides in advanced nuclear systems with fast neutron spectra represents a key option ...

Elsevier Ltd2008

On the accuracy of reactor physics calculations for square HPLWR fuel assemblies

Rakesh Chawla, Fabian Jatuff

Although the supercritical-pressure or high-performance light water reactor (HPLWR) concept is largely based on the well-established technological experience available with conventional light water reactors, there is still no consensus on various key desig ...

Elsevier2006

Comparisons of deterministic neutronic calculations with Monte Carlo results for an advanced BWR fuel assembly with hafnium control blades

Rakesh Chawla, Filippo Tani, Fabian Jatuff, Michaël Plaschy, Flavio Dante Giust

From the neutronic viewpoint, the optimization of BWR core designs is strongly related to the accurate determination of flux variations inside and around fuel assemblies. These fluctuations, which are mainly due to the high heterogeneity of the fuel and mo ...

Atomic Energy Society of Japan2006

Effects of void uncertainties on the void reactivity coefficient and pin power distributions for a 1010 BWR assembly

Rakesh Chawla, Fabian Jatuff, Flavio Dante Giust

An important source of uncertainty in boiling water reactor physics is associated with the precise characterisation of the moderation properties of the coolant and by-pass regions, with significant impact on reactor physics parameters such as the lattice n ...

Elsevier2006