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Design and Simulation of Gamma Spectrometry Experiments in the CROCUS Reactor

Andreas Pautz, Vincent Pierre Lamirand, Mathieu Hursin, Oskari Ville Pakari, Fanny Vitullo

Gamma rays in nuclear reactors, arising either from fission or decay processes, significantly contribute to the heating and dose of the reactor components. Zero power research reactors offer the possibility to measure gamma rays in a purely neutronic envir ...

E D P SCIENCES2020

Nuclear data uncertainties for Swiss BWR spent nuclear fuel characteristics

Mathieu Hursin, Hakim Ferroukhi, Dimitri Rochman, Abdelhamid Dokhane

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

Development of Advanced Methodologies for Monitoring and Modelling of Neutron Noise in Modern LWR Cores

Dionysios Chionis

Nuclear reactors are inherently stochastic systems, in which neutronic and thermal-hydraulic parameters fluctuate continuously even during steady-state conditions. In addition, structural components vibrate due to the coolant hydraulic forces. This stochas ...

EPFL2020

Statistical Burnup Distribution of Moving Pebbles in the High-Temperature Reactor HTR-PM

Andreas Pautz, Fanny Vitullo, Horst-Michael Prasser

In the pebble-bed high-temperature reactor under construction in China, called the HTR-PM, the spherical fuel elements continuously flow downward in the cylindrical core. The burnup of each pebble is checked at the core outlet and, according to the achieve ...

ASME2020

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

Radioactive boron beams produced by isotope online mass separation at CERN-ISOLDE

Mélanie Delonca

.We report on the development and characterization of the first radioactive boron beams produced by the isotope mass separation online (ISOL) technique at CERN-ISOLDE. Despite the long history of the ISOL technique which exploits thick targets, boron beams ...

Springer2019

Improved neutron activation dosimetry for fusion

Olivier Sauter, Richard Pitts, Ambrogio Fasoli, Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Henri Weisen, Yves Martin, Javier García Hernández, Duccio Testa, Marco Wischmeier, Nicola Vianello, Sun Hee Kim, Mikhail Maslov, Patrick Blanchard, Alessandro Pau, Davide Galassi, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Liang Yao, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Cristian Sommariva, Jan Horacek, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Federico Nespoli, Hamish William Patten, Samuel Lanthaler, David Pfefferlé, Semin Kwak, Isabel Marie-Rose Pilar Casado Harrington

Neutron activation technique has been widely used for the monitoring of neutron fluence at the Joint European Torus (JET) whereas it is foreseen to be employed at future fusion plants, such as ITER and DEMO. Neutron activation provides a robust tool for th ...

2019

Maximizing specific energy by breeding deuterium

Justin Richard Ball

Specific energy (i.e. energy per unit mass) is one of the most fundamental and consequential properties of a fuel source. In this work, a systematic study of measured fusion cross-sections is performed to determine which reactions are potentially feasible ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

Observation of the Lambda(0)(b) -> chi(c1) (3872)pK(-) decay

Jian Wang, Mingkui Wang, Olivier Schneider, Zhirui Xu, Yiming Li, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Yi Wang, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Jessica Prisciandaro, Tatsuya Nakada, Christoph Frei, Mark Tobin, Frédéric Blanc, Greig Alan Cowan, Maurizio Martinelli, Vladislav Balagura, Donal Patrick Hill, Liang Sun, François Fleuret, Mirco Dorigo, Liupan An, Renato Quagliani, Maxime Schubiger, Hang Yin, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Elena Graverini, Michel De Cian, Vladimir Macko, Federico Leo Redi, Luis Miguel Garcia Martin, Sebastian Schulte, Tommaso Colombo, Vitalii Lisovskyi, Tara Nanut, Minh Tâm Tran, Violaine Bellée, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Pavol Stefko, Pietro Marino, Maria Vieites Diaz, Lino Ferreira Lopes, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Veronica Sølund Kirsebom, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante, Guido Andreassi, Luca Pescatore, Preema Rennee Pais, Plamen Hristov Hopchev, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Thi Dung Nguyen, Olivier Göran Girard, Axel Kuonen, Vincenzo Battista

Using proton-proton collision data, collected with the LHCb detector and corresponding to 1.0, 2.0 and 1.9 fb(-1) of integrated luminosity at the centre-of-mass energies of 7, 8, and 13 TeV, respectively, the decay Lambda(0)(b) -> chi(c1)(3872)pK(-) with c ...

Springer Nature2019

Early chemical enrichment of the Milky Way dwarf satellites from high-resolution and NLTE analysis of VMP stars

Pascale Jablonka, Pierre North

We present the NLTE abundances of 10 chemical species in 65 very metal-poor stars in eight dSphs and the Milky Way halo. The classical dSphs Sculptor, Ursa Minor, Sextans, and Fornax reveal a similar plateau at [alpha/Fe] = 0.3 for each of Mg, Ca, and Ti, ...

CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS2019