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Data-Driven Predictive Models: Calculational Bias in Characterization of Spent Nuclear Fuel

Characteristics of the spent nuclear fuel (SNF) are typically calculated, requiring validation a priori. The validation process relies on the difference between calculations and measurements, namely the bias. Usually, predicting the bias based on benchmark ...

EPFL2022

Assessment of representativity of the PETALE experiments for validation of Swiss LWRs ex-core dosimetry calculations

Andreas Pautz, Vincent Pierre Lamirand, Hakim Ferroukhi, Dimitri Rochman, Axel Guy Marie Laureau

The international experimental program PETALE will be carried out at the CROCUS research reactor of EPFL. The program aims at measuring neutron penetration in slabs made of materials composing typical LWR reactor pressure vessel. The measurements will be u ...

E D P SCIENCES2020

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

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

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

Bayesian Monte Carlo assimilation for the PETALE experimental programme using inter-dosimeter correlation

Andreas Pautz, Vincent Pierre Lamirand, Dimitri Rochman, Axel Guy Marie Laureau

This article presents the methodology developed to generate and use dosimeter covariances and to estimate nuisance parameters for the PETALE experimental programme. In anticipation of the final experimental results, this work investigates the consideration ...

2020

Applying SHARK-X to perform data assimilation with the LWR-PROTEUS Phase II integral experiments

Andreas Pautz, Mathieu Hursin, Daniel Jerôme Siefman

Data assimilation methods have recently been implemented in the sensitivity analysis and uncertainty quantification tool SHARK-X. This paper presents how they were used with sensitivity coefficients and randomly-sampled nuclear data to simulate integral pa ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

On data assimilation with Monte-Carlo-calculated and statistically uncertain sensitivity coefficients

Andreas Pautz, Mathieu Hursin, Daniel Jerôme Siefman

Sensitivity coefficients from Monte Carlo neutron transport codes have uncertainties that can affect nuclear data adjustments with integral experiments. This paper presents an extended version of Generalized Linear Least Squares (GLLS), called xGLLS, that ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

Development and Application of Data Assimilation Methods in Reactor Physics

Daniel Jerôme Siefman

Simulations of nuclear reactor physics can disagree significantly from experimental evidence, even when the most accurate models are used. An important part of this bias from experiment is caused by nuclear data. The nuclear data have inherent uncertaintie ...

EPFL2019

Analysis of deposited layers with deuterium and impurity elements on samples from the divertor of JET with ITER-like wall

Olivier Sauter, Jonathan Graves, Ambrogio Fasoli, Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Henri Weisen, Patrick Blanchard, Richard Pitts, Yves Martin, Javier García Hernández, Duccio Testa, Robin Humphry-Baker, Sun Hee Kim, Alessandro Pau, Davide Galassi, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Liang Yao, Jan Horacek, Yann Camenen, Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, Mikhail Maslov, Marco Wischmeier, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Daniel Scott Alessi, Arnout Lodewijk M Beckers, Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Partha Dutta, Vlad Trifa, Federico Nespoli, Hamish William Patten, Fernando Cortes Salazar, Samuel Lanthaler, David Pfefferlé, João Saraiva Esteves Pacheco de Almeida, Albano António De Abreu E Presa De Castro E Sousa, Alexis Gérald Page, Janir Nuno Ramos Antunes Da Cruz, Nicola Vianello, Cristian Sommariva, Andrea Brett Gasser, Tao Xu, Thomas Willem Jan de Geus, Paulo Giovane Paschoali Pereira Puglia, Mario Joe Lehmann, Jose Vicente Sanchez Mut, Joao André Gomes de Sá e Sousa, Semin Kwak, Jose Felix Vega Stavro, Lorenzo Anton-Louis Talà, Pamela Solange Valdés Undurraga, Wei Zhang, Lenke Horváth, Matthew Brown, Luca Carraro, Andrea Salmi, Raffaele Tito D'Agnolo, Hugo Antoine Georges Arnichand, Wei Tang, Luis David Figueiredo Mascarenhas Moreira Pedrosa, Philippe Janson, Lyne Moser, Stéphanie Prior, Michael Oliver Reinke, Stefano Mattei, Daniel Molina Romero, Riccardo Vannucci, Candice Megan T Young, Magalie Diane Bassan, Petre Alexandru Arion, Justin Robert Young, Isabel Marie-Rose Pilar Casado Harrington, Gil Corbaz, Hugo Augusto Penedones Fernandes, Philippe Jean Buchs, Alejandro Santa Cruz Paz

Inconel-600 blocks and stainless steel covers for quartz microbalance crystals from remote corners in the JET-ILW divertor were studied with time-of-flight elastic recoil detection analysis and nuclear reaction analysis to obtain information about the area ...

2019

An Experimental Programme optimized with Uncertainty Propagation: PETALE in the CROCUS Reactor

Andreas Pautz, Vincent Pierre Lamirand, Dimitri Rochman, Axel Guy Marie Laureau

The PETALE experimental programme in the CROCUS reactor at EPFL intends to contribute to the validation and improvement of neutron nuclear data in the MeV energy range for stainless steel, particularly in the prospect of heavy reflector elements of pressur ...

EPJ Web of conference2019

First principles and integrated modelling achievements towards trustful fusion power predictions for JET and ITER

Yiming Li, Olivier Sauter, Richard Pitts, Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Henri Weisen, Yann Camenen, Jan Horacek, Javier García Hernández, Duccio Testa, Marco Wischmeier, Nicola Vianello, Mikhail Maslov, Federico Nespoli, Patrick Blanchard, Alessandro Pau, Davide Galassi, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Cristian Sommariva, Hamish William Patten, Jonathan Graves, Emiliano Fable, Francesca Maria Poli, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Daniele Brunetti, Anna Teplukhina, Samuel Lanthaler, Haomin Sun, Alberto Mariani, Michele Marin

Predictability of burning plasmas is a key issue for designing and building credible future fusion devices. In this context, an important effort of physics understanding and guidance is being carried out in parallel to JET experimental campaigns in H and D ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

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

Investigation of deuterium trapping and release in the JET divertor during the third ILW campaign using TDS

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

Selected set of samples from JET ITER-Like Wall (JET-ILW) divertor tiles exposed in 2015-2016 has been analysed using Thermal Desorption Spectrometry (TDS). The deuterium (D) amounts obtained with TDS were compared with Nuclear Reaction Analysis (NRA). The ...

Elsevier2019

Protection Group Effects During α,γ-Diol Lignin Stabilization Promote High-Selectivity Monomer Production

Jeremy Luterbacher, Masoud Talebi Amiri, Wu Lan, Christopher Marc Hunston

Protection groups were introduced during biomass pretreatment to stabilize lignin's α,γ-diol group during its extraction and prevent its condensation. Acetaldehyde and propionaldehyde stabilized the α,γ-diol without any aromatic ring alkylation, which sign ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2018

Stochastic vs. sensitivity-based integral parameter and nuclear data adjustments

Andreas Pautz, Mathieu Hursin, Dimitri Rochman, Daniel Jerôme Siefman

Developments in data assimilation theory allow to adjust integral parameters and cross sections with stochastic sampling. This work investigates how two stochastic methods, MOCABA and BMC, perform relative to a sensitivity-based methodology called GLLS. St ...

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG2018

Case Study of Data Assimilation Methods with the LWR-Proteus Phase II Experimental Campaign

Andreas Pautz, Mathieu Hursin, Daniel Jerôme Siefman

This paper describes the application of data assimilation methods to CASMO-5 simulations of a Proteus research reactor experiment. Its focus is a comparison and evaluation of three prominent data assimilation methods: generalized linear least squares, MOCA ...

2017

Sampling-Based Nuclear Data Uncertainty Quantification for Continuous Energy Monte Carlo Codes

Ting Zhu

The goal of the present PhD research is to establish a methodology of nuclear data uncertainty quantification (NDUQ) for MCNPX, the continuous-energy Monte-Carlo (M-C) code. The high fidelity (continuous-energy treatment and flexible geometry modelling) of ...

EPFL2015

Application of the PSI-NUSS Tool for the Estimation of Nuclear Data Related k(eff) Uncertainties for the OECD/NEA WPNCS UACSA Phase I Benchmark

Andreas Pautz, Hakim Ferroukhi

At the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), a methodology titled PSI-NUSS is under development for the propagation of nuclear data uncertainties into Criticality Safety Evaluation (CSE) with the Monte Carlo code MCNPX. The primary purpose is to provide a complem ...

Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science2014

Nuclear technology aspects of ITER vessel-mounted diagnostics

Duccio Testa, Matthieu Toussaint

ITER has diagnostics with machine protection, basic and advanced control, and physics roles. Several are distributed on the inner and outer periphery of the vacuum vessel. They have reduced maintainability compared to diagnostics in ports. They also endure ...

Elsevier2011