The 12th International Conference on Nuclear Criticality Safety (ICNC) will be held in Sendai, Japan on 1-6 October 2023. Twenty years after the last conference in Japan, which was held in Tokai-mura...
Monte Carlo criticality calculations involve a two-step procedure based on a stochastic implementation of the power iteration method: first, achieve convergence of the fission source distribution dur...
This benchmark report has been compiled under the guidance of the NEA Working Party on Nuclear Criticality Safety (WPNCS) in the Subgroup on the Role of Integral Experiment Uncertainties and Covarian...
The NEA Expert Group on Used Nuclear Fuel criticality (EGUNF) organised a Phase IIB benchmark to re-examine code and nuclear data performance for BWR lattice calculations and focus on the depletion m...
The primary purpose of the International Criticality Safety Benchmark Evaluation Project (ICSBEP) is to compile critical and subcritical benchmark experiment data into a standardised format that allo...
Over its 25 years of existence, the working party has contributed many topics and has led advances in criticality safety studies.
Under the guidance of the Nuclear Science Committee (NSC) , the Working Party on Nuclear Criticality Safety (WPNCS) focuses on technical and scientific issues related to criticality safety. Specific...
Burn-up credit is a safety approach that accounts for the reduction in the reactivity of configurations with spent nuclear fuel due to the change in their composition after irradiation.
WPNCS bi-annual event brought together 80 experts from 17 member countries.
The NEA Working Party on Nuclear Criticality Safety (WPNCS) held its annual meetings on 6-10 July 2020 via video conference with 63 experts from 14 countries.
Source Convergence in Criticality Safety Analyses - Phase II: Guidance for Analysts
ICSBEP Guide to the Expression of Uncertainties
Document content and format guide for the International Criticality Safety Benchmark Evaluation Project (ICSBEP) – NEA/NSC/DOC(95)03
Criticality is the state of a nuclear reactor when there is a self-sustaining chain reaction of fissionable material. Criticality experiments are controlled tests using fissile materials, like pluton...
A criticality excursion (also referred to as a criticality accident) is the accidental production of a self-sustaining or divergent chain reaction of fissionable material.
Criticality is the state of a nuclear reactor when there is a self-sustaining chain reaction of fissionable material. Criticality safety analysis relates to evaluation approaches in data and computat...
WPNCS 2019 meetings - Subgroup 7 (SG-7) agenda
Ninth International Conference on Nuclear Criticality (ICNC2011) - Programme and call for papers
Numerical benchmark for the analysis of small-sample reactivity experiments
