The annual Benchmark Workshops of the Working Party on Scientific Issues and Uncertainty Analysis of Reactor Systems (WPRS) will be co-located with the BEPU 2024 conference and hosted by N.IN.E. (Nuclear and Industrial Engineering) in Lucca, Italy. From 19-23 May 2024, participants of different WPRS Benchmark Activities will meet, exchange results and discuss future activities.
Participants unable to join in person can attend the event online via Zoom.
The WPRS Benchmark Workshops address benchmarks for neutronics, thermal-hydraulics, fuel performance, and multi-physics aspects of reactor core simulations in LWR, HTGR, SFR, LFR, and other LMFR systems. The workshops also include discussions on the performance of AI and Machine Learning in the domain of single and multi-physics reactor simulations.The event will also host the CTF User Group Meeting, CTF training, and the second edition of the NEA International School on Simulation of Nuclear Reactor Systems (SINUS).
This is a preliminary agenda which will be subject to changes according to the number of registered participants and proposed presentations.
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Track 1 |
Track 2 |
Track 3 (SINUS) |
| Sunday, |
9:00-13:00 |
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14:00-18:00 |
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Starting at 18:00 |
Registration & informal networking |
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| Monday, |
Starting at 8:00 |
Registration |
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9:00-13:00 |
OECD NEA International School on Simulation of Nuclear Reactor Systems (SINUS) |
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14:00-18:00 |
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| Tuesday, |
9:00-13:00 |
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14:00-18:00 |
Multi-physics Pellet Cladding Mechanical Interaction Validation (MPCMIV) Benchmark |
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| Weds, |
9:00-13:00 |
Liquid Metal Fast Reactor Core Thermal-Hydraulics Benchmark (LMFR T/H) |
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14:00-18:00 |
including session on EGMUP Task Force on Doppler effective fuel temperature |
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| Thursday, |
9:00-13:00 |
9:00-11:00 Summary presentations of recently concluded benchmarks: - Burst Fission Gas Release (1h) - McMaster CTH (1h) |
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11:00-13:00 |
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14:00-18:00 |
The workshops will be co-located with the BEPU 2024 conference in Lucca, Italy. Please visit the related BEPU 2024 pages to get more details about the venue.
The event is open to participants from NEA member countries, the European Commission, and the International Atomic Energy Agency.
We kindly ask all participants to finalise their registration through the provided link by 26 April 2024 to define the detailed workshops agendas.
There is no registration fee for the WPRS Benchmarks Workshops, and the event does not include any catering. Thus, it is highly recommended to purchase the WPRS tickets on the BEPU website to get access to coffee breaks and lunches.
Registration for the WPRS Benchmarks Workshops does not provide access to the BEPU conference. If you want to attend the BEPU conference, then you must register for BEPU, too: BEPU Registration
wprs@oecd-nea.org
