Studies on fast reactors have historically concentrated on their capability to use plutonium produced in thermal reactors as initial fuel, and subsequently their capacity to produce electricity while...
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1 November 1996
NEA/NSC/R(2020)1
Since 2007, the NEA has organised a series of workshops on structural materials for innovative nuclear systems (SMINS). The fifth meeting, held from 8‑11 July 2019 in Kyoto, Japan, was hosted by Kyot...
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26 November 2020
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18 March 2009
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18 March 2009
NEA/NSC/DOC(1996)17
Overview of the 7th Symposium on Reactor Surveillance and Diagnostics (SMORN-VII), 19-23 June 1995, Avignon, France
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1 January 1996
NEA/NSC/DOC(2013)1
The Expert Group on Reactor Physics and Advanced Nuclear Systems (EGRPANS) was created in 2011 to perform specific tasks associated with reactor physics aspects of present and future nuclear power sy...
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14 January 2013
Under the guidance of the Nuclear Science Committee (NSC) and under the mandate of the Working Party on Multi-scale Modelling of Fuels and Structural Materials for Nuclear Systems (WPMM), the objecti...
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5 March 2020
NEA/NSC/DOC(2007)8
Monterey, California, USA, 17 April 2007
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15 May 2007
The expert group works in co-ordination with Working Party on Scientific Issues of Reactor Systems (WPRS) [including the IRPhE Project], Working Party on Scientific Issues of the Fuel Cycle (WPFC) an...
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9 March 2020
The expert group critically reviewed integral experiments for validating minor actinide (MA) nuclear data, recommended additional integral experiments needed for validating MA nuclear data and invest...
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5 March 2021
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2 June 2015
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17 May 1999
The expert group dealt with the activities associated with the certification of experimental data and benchmark models along with establishing the processes and procedures for using the data and benc...
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23 November 2021
New NEA reports on nuclear data evaluation
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5 August 2020
NEA/NSC/DOC(2012)11
The objective of the OECD LWR UAM activity is to establish an internationally accepted benchmark framework to compare, assess and further develop different uncertainty analysis methods associated wit...
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24 May 2012
The quality of the isotopic composition of plutonium fuel degrades as the number of recycles increases in thermal reactors. There are in addition incentives to better utilise fuel by increasing the b...
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19 July 1995
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12 November 1996
The main objectives of this expert group are to assess the limitations of the NRT-dpa standard, in the light of both atomistic simulations and known experimental discrepancies; and to revisit the NRT...
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5 March 2020
The objectives of the expert group are to assess the accuracy and calculation time of the various first principle tools applied in the assessment of the properties of the nuclear materials; assess th...
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5 March 2020
The expert group was established to develop a nuclear data structure definition that can meet the needs of a broad set of nuclear data users and providers.
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20 September 2022
The expert group is responsible for managing the activities related to the High Priority Request List (HPRL) for nuclear data, in particular for guaranteeing that the entries are up-to-date and well-...
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20 September 2022
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3 March 2010
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4 February 2008
Materials performance is critical to the safe and economic operation of any nuclear system. As the international community pursues the development of Generation IV reactor concepts and accelerator-dr...
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21 October 2013
Development of innovative fuels such as homogeneous and heterogeneous fuels, ADS fuels, and oxide, metal, nitride and carbide fuels is an important stage in the implementation process of advanced nuc...
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12 December 2014
Future fuel cycle characteristics, feasibility and acceptability will be crucial for the continued development of nuclear energy, especially in the post-Fukushima context. Fuel cycle choices have bot...
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18 July 2013
Regional strategies can provide a useful framework for implementing innovative nuclear fuel cycles. The appropriate sharing of efforts and facilities among different countries is necessary in today’s...
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27 September 2009
Future nuclear fuel cycles could effectively address radioactive waste issues with the implementation of partitioning and transmutation (P&T). Previous studies have defined the infrastructure require...
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3 February 2009
Many countries have been performing a wide range of research on the partitioning and transmutation (P&T) of minor actinides and fission products. The aim is to provide greater flexibility in terms of...
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10 March 2010
As part of the development of advanced nuclear systems, including accelerator-driven systems (ADS) proposed for high-level radioactive waste transmutation and generation IV reactors, heavy liquid met...
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31 May 2007
Subgroup 7 of the NEA Working Party on International Nuclear Data Co-operation (WPEC) was established to re-evaluate the nuclear data standards cross-section. These cross-section data are the basis f...
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29 November 2006
This report has been prepared by Subgroup 9 which was set up in 1998 with the aim of investigating discrepancies found between microscopic and macroscopic data for the uranium-235 fission neutron spe...
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15 July 2003
Present Status of Minor Actinide Data
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1 January 1999
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1 January 1998
NEA/NSC/DOC(1996)6
Isotopic Prediction: Final Report, M.D. DeHart (ORNL), M.C. Brady (SNL), C.V. Parks (ORNL). Publication date June 1996. ORNL-6901
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1 January 1996
NEA/NSC/DOC(1996)1
JAERI-Research 96-003, M. Takano, H. Okuno, (JAERI), publication date: February 1996
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1 January 1996
NEA/NSC/DOC(1998)1
Results - Conceptual PWR Spent Fuel Transportation Cask, A. Nouri
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1 January 1998
NEA/NSC/R(2015)1
Impact of Isotopic Inventory Changes due to Control Rod Insertions on Reactivity and the End Effect in PWR UO2 Fuel Assemblies
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2 June 2015
NEA/NSC/R(2015)6
Nuclide Composition and Neutron Multiplication Factor of a Boiling Water Reactor Spent Fuel Assembly for Burn-up Credit and Criticality Control of Damaged Nuclear Fuel
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2 October 2015
NEA/NSC/DOC(1992)10
Isotopic Prediction (Problem Specification). Revised, January 1993 Michaele C. Brady<br>See <a href="/html/science/docs/1996/nsc-doc96-06.pdf">NEA/NSC/DOC(96)6</a>.
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1 January 1992
NEA/NSC/DOC(1993)15
Effect of Axial Burnup Profile (Infinite fuel pin array) Makoto Takano (JAERI), Michaele Brady (SNL), Alain Santamarina (CEA), June 1993. See NEA/NSC/DOC(96)1
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1 January 1993
NEA/NEACRP/L(1991)337
Simple PWR Spent Fuel Cell (Problem Specification), Makoto TAKANO (JAERI), Michaele BRADY (ORNL), 1991
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1 January 1991
NEA/NSC/DOC(1997)11
Hiroshi OKUNO, Yoshitaka NAITO and Yoshihira ANDO (JAERI)
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1 January 1997
NEA/NSC/DOC(2000)12
Criticality Calculations of BWR Spent Fuel in Storage and Transport, Hiroshi OKUNO, Yoshitaka NAITO, Yoshihira ANDO
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30 June 2000
NEA/NSC/DOC(2002)2
Burn-up Calculations of BWR Fuel Assemblies for Storage and Transport
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16 January 2002
NEA/NSC/DOC(1993)22
JAERI-M-94-003 Makoto TAKANO (JAERI), January 1994
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1 January 1993
NEA/NSC/R(2016)2
Numerical benchmark for the analysis of small-sample reactivity experiments
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9 June 2016
NEA/NSC/DOC(2003)4
Results and Analysis of MOX Fuels Depletion Calculations
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17 April 2003
NEA/NSC/DOC(2003)3
Reactivity Prediction Calculations for Infinite Arrays of PWR Mox Fuel Pincells
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17 April 2003
NEA/NSC/DOC(1996)4
Criticality Calculations of BWR Spent Fuel in Storage and Transportation, Yoshitaka Naito, Hiroshi Okuno and Yoshihara Ando (JAERI)
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1 January 1996
