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Delayed gamma fraction determination in the zero power reactor CROCUS

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

The COLIBRI experimental program in the CROCUS reactor: characterization of the fuel rods oscillator

Daniel Godat, Pavel Frajtag, Andreas Pautz, Adolfo Rais, Oskari Ville Pakari, Vincent Pierre Lamirand, Mathieu Hursin, Carlo Fiorina, Axel Guy Marie Laureau

The present article presents the mechanical characterization of the fuel rods oscillator developed for the purposes of the COLIBRI experimental program in CROCUS. COLIBRI aims at investigating the radiation noise related to fuel vibrations. The main motiva ...

2020

The EQL0D fuel cycle procedure and its application to the transition to equilibrium of selected molten salt reactor designs

Boris Aviv Hombourger, Andreas Pautz, Jiri Krepel

In recent years, Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs), one of the Generation IV concepts, have noticeably gained in interest. Several molten salt reactor types use fuel in liquid form, bringing various advantages, notably in terms of fuel cycle. However, simulating ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

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

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

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

Modeling of Quench Protection Concepts for Canted-Cosine-Theta Type High-Field Magnets

Bernhard Auchmann, Andreas Pautz, Jiani Gao

An innovative high-field superconducting magnet of Canted-Cosine-Theta (CCT) type has been proposed for Future Circular Collider 16 T dipole magnet design. The unique mechanical structure intercepts the accumulated forces lowering the stress on the winding ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2020

Data assimilation of post-irradiation examination data for fission yields from GEF

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

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

Power calibration methodology at the CROCUS reactor

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

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

Andreas Pautz, Alexander Aures, Winfried Zwermann

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

Development and verification of a methodology for neutron noise response to fuel assembly vibrations

Gaëtan Girardin, Abdelhamid Dokhane, Hakim Ferroukhi, Andreas Pautz, Dionysios Chionis

Nuclear reactors are stochastic systems, in which several parameters fluctuate even during steady-state conditions. In addition, structural components like fuel assemblies, vibrate due to strong hydraulic forces. This stochasticity is the cause of the neut ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

Data assimilation of post irradiation examination experiments to adjust fission yields

Andreas Pautz, Daniel Jerôme Siefman, Mathieu Hursin

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

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

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

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

Loading optimization for Swiss used nuclear fuel assemblies into final disposal canisters

Hakim Ferroukhi, Andreas Pautz, Alexander Vasiliev, Dimitri Rochman

In this study, an optimization of the canister loading for used nuclear fuels is performed, solely based on their decay heat values. By taking into account the individual irradiation history for each fuel assembly, as well as with a number of assumptions o ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2020

The OFFBEAT multi-dimensional fuel behavior solver

Andreas Pautz, Alessandro Scolaro, Carlo Fiorina

The OpenFOAM Fuel BEhavior Analysis Tool, or OFFBEAT, is a multi-dimensional fuel performance code under collaborative development at the Laboratory for Reactor Physics and Systems Behaviour (LRS) of the EPFL and at the PSI. The code can be used both for s ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2020

SCALE/AMPX multigroup libraries for sodium-cooled fast reactor systems

Andreas Pautz, Winfried Zwermann, Friederike Bostelmann

New multigroup cross section libraries and associated covariance files that are optimized for the analysis of sodium-cooled fast reactors were generated with the AMPX tools distributed with the SCALE code system. These new libraries account for the fast ne ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

In-core dosimetry for the validation of neutron spectra in the CROCUS reactor

Pavel Frajtag, Andreas Pautz, Vincent Pierre Lamirand, Axel Guy Marie Laureau, Yifeng Jiang

The present article describes the preliminary validation study of simulated in-core and reflector n eutron spectra in preparation of oncoming experimental programs in the zero-power reactor CROCUS at EPFL. For this purpose, a set of activation foils were i ...

E D P SCIENCES2020

Neutron noise experiments in the AKR-2 and CROCUS reactors for the European project CORTEX

Daniel Godat, Pavel Frajtag, Andreas Pautz, Adolfo Rais, Oskari Ville Pakari, Vincent Pierre Lamirand, Mathieu Hursin, Carlo Fiorina, Axel Guy Marie Laureau

The present article gives an overview of the first experimental campaigns carried out in the AKR-2 and CROCUS reactors within the framework of the Horizon 2020 European project CORTEX. CORTEX aims at developing innovative core monitoring techniques that al ...

E D P SCIENCES2020

Measurement of the Gas Velocity in a Water-Air Mixture in CROCUS Using Neutron Noise Techniques

Pavel Frajtag, Andreas Pautz, Oskari Ville Pakari, Vincent Pierre Lamirand, Mathieu Hursin

The possibility of measuring the gas-phase velocity in a two-phase mixture through the use of neutron noise techniques is demonstrated in the zero-power reactor CROCUS of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne. It is the first step toward the experim ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC2020

Development and verification of pin-by-pin homogenized simplified transport solver Tortin for PWR core analysis

Andreas Pautz, Petra Mala

Currently, the pin-by-pin homogenized solvers are a very active research field as they can, unlike the nodal codes, directly predict the local power, while requiring significantly less computational resources than the heterogeneous transport codes. This pa ...

2020

Uncertainty propagation based on correlated sampling technique for nuclear data applications

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

A correlated sampling technique has been implemented to estimate the impact of cross section modifications on the neutron transport and in Monte Carlo simulations in one single calculation. This implementation has been coupled to a Total Monte Carlo approa ...

2020

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

Andreas Pautz, Daniel Jerôme Siefman, Mathieu Hursin

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

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