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Analysing hydrogen behaviour in liner claddings using OFFBEAT fuel performance code

Hydrogen generated during the waterside corrosion of zirconium claddings can diffuse within the material, forming hydrides that alter the mechanical properties of the claddings. These hydrides may lead to detrimental effects such as delayed hydride crackin ...

2025

International fuel performance study of fresh fuel experiments for PCMI effects during RIA experiments

Alessandro Scolaro, Matthieu Alain Max Reymond

This paper presents the results of High-burnup Experiments for Reactivity-initiated Accident (HERA) Modeling & Simulation (M&S) exercise. The HERA project under the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Second Framework for Irradiation Experiments (FIDES-II) program ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2024

Experimental study and interpretative modelling of the Power Exhaust in Configurations with Multiple X-Points in TCV

Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno

Nuclear fusion presents a promising clean energy source to mitigate future energy crises, with magnetic confinement fusion well-positioned to provide a baseload scenario to power future reactors. The unmitigated power exhaust of such reactors threatens its ...

EPFL2024

Search for dark matter from the Galactic halo with the IceCube Neutrino Telescope

Matthias Wolf, Xiaoxia Bai, Mathieu Ribordy, Shirit Cohen

Self-annihilating or decaying dark matter in the Galactic halo might produce high energy neutrinos detectable with neutrino telescopes. We have conducted a search for such a signal using 276 days of data from the IceCube 22-string configuration detector ac ...

American Physical Society2011

Probing the nature of Dark Energy through the study of large scale structures using spectroscopic surveys and their simulations

Andrei Variu

Measurements of large-scale structure (LSS), as performed on the largest 3D map of over two million extragalactic sources from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, together with measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies, are in complete a ...

EPFL2023

Improvement of the Decay Heat Removal Characteristics of the Generation IV Gas-cooled Fast Reactor

Gas cooling in nuclear power plants (NPPs) has a long history, the corresponding reactor types developed in France, the UK and the US having been thermal neutron-spectrum systems using graphite as the moderator. The majority of NPPs worldwide, however, are ...

EPFL2010

Design and operational guidelines of solar-driven catalytic conversion of CO2 and H2 to fuels

Sophia Haussener, Sha Li

Sunlight-powered catalytic conversion of CO2 and (green) H2 into fuels and chemicals via Sabatier and reverse water gas shift (RWGS) processes offers a promising solution to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase renewable energy utilization. The suc ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2023

Microprobe analysis of neutron irradiated and autoclaved zirconium niobium claddings using synchrotron-based hard X-ray imaging and spectroscopy

Two zirconium alloys (Zr-2.5%Nb) - one oxidized in a pressurized water reactor, the other oxidized in autoclave and used as reference - are analyzed by combining synchrotron-based scanning transmission and fluorescence X-ray microscopy and micro-X-ray abso ...

Elsevier2009

FAST: An advanced code system for fast reactor transient analysis

Rakesh Chawla, Konstantin Mikityuk

One of the main goals of the FAST project at PSI is to establish a unique analytical code capability for the core and safety analysis of advanced critical (and sub-critical) fast-spectrum systems for a wide range of different coolants. Both static and tran ...

Elsevier2005

Energy hub-based optimal planning framework for user-level integrated energy systems: Considering synergistic effects under multiple uncertainties

François Maréchal, Chengzhou Li

The design of user-level integrated energy systems is challenged by a variety of combinations of energy converters, complex cascade utilization of multiple energy flows, as well as sequential matching between stochastic energy resources and periodic energy ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022

Evidence for a New Structure in the J/ψp and J/ψ¯p Systems in B0s→J/ψp¯p Decays

Olivier Schneider, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Tatsuya Nakada, Frédéric Blanc, Lesya Shchutska, Elena Graverini, Michel De Cian, Vladimir Macko, Federico Leo Redi, Sebastian Schulte, Donal Patrick Hill, Tara Nanut, Minh Tâm Tran, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Maria Vieites Diaz, Marie Theres Christin Bachmayer, Lino Ferreira Lopes, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Serhii Cholak, Veronica Sølund Kirsebom, Ettore Zaffaroni, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Surapat Ek-In, Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante, Sara Celani, Carina Trippl, Sonia Amina Bouchiba, Thi Dung Nguyen, Alison Maria Tully, Mâu Chung Nguyên, Maarten Willibrord Uriël Van Dijk

An amplitude analysis of flavor-untagged B0s→J/ψp¯p decays is performed using a sample of 797±31 decays reconstructed with the LHCb detector. The data, collected in proton-proton collisions between 2011 and 2018, correspond to an integrated luminosity of 9 ...

2022

The cis-lunar ecosystem — A systems model and scenarios of the resource industry and its impact

Jean-Paul Richard Kneib

Lunar resources is one of the many new putative business models that may transform space logistics. Yet it competes with Earth-based resources, in a complex trade-off involving both tech development & socioeconomic dynamics. This study models the size vs. ...

2021

The asymmetric multitype contact process

Thomas Mountford, Daniel Rodrigues Valesin

We study the multitype contact process on Z(d) under the assumption that one of the types has a birth rate that is larger than that of the other type, and larger than the critical value of the standard contact process. We prove that, if initially present, ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2019

Extension of the nodal code DYN3D to SFR applications

Evgeny Nikitin

DYN3D is a well-established Light Water Reactor (LWR) simulation tool and is being extended for safety analyses of Sodium cooled Fast Reactors (SFRs) at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf. This thesis focuses on the first stage of the development pro ...

EPFL2019

Geometric calibration of Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System of ESA's Trace Gas Orbiter

François Fleuret, Anton Ivanov, Stepan Tulyakov

There are many geometric calibration methods for "standard" cameras. These methods, however, cannot be used for the calibration of telescopes with large focal lengths and complex off-axis optics. Moreover, specialized calibration methods for the telescopes ...

Elsevier2018

An integrated concentrated solar fuel generator utilizing a tubular solid oxide electrolysis cell as solar absorber

Sophia Haussener, Meng Lin

We numerically assessed the potential of a solar reactor concept for efficient fuel processing under concentrated solar irradiation. This design integrates a cavity receiver, a tubular solid oxide electrolyzer, and the concentrated photovoltaic cells into ...

2018

Micro-mechanical finite element modeling of diagonal compression test for historical stone masonry structure

Jean-François Molinari, Katrin Beyer, Seyedeh Mohadeseh Taheri Mousavi, Nicolas Richart, Shenghan Zhang

Simulating the force-deformation behavior of stone masonry is a challenging issue. This paper contributes to this topic by developing a detailed micro-modeling method using extrinsic cohesive elements. To consider contact and friction, a new node-to-node a ...

Elsevier2017

Incorporating Climate Change Predictions in the Analysis of Weather-based Uncertainty

Marilyne Andersen, Parag Rastogi

This paper proposes randomly-generated synthetic time series incorporating climate change forecasts to quantify the variation in energy simulation due to weather inputs, i.e., Monte Carlo analysis for uncertainty and sensitivity quantification. The method ...

IBPSA-USA, ASHRAE2016