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Expert Group on Integral Experiments for Minor Actinide Management (EGIEMAM)

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...

WPFC WPEC Nuclear science Experiments Actinides WPRS Reactor physics Integral experiments Minor actinides NSC Nuclear fuel cycle Fuel cycle physics and chemistry …
Published date: 5 March 2021
NEA Document
NUPEC BWR Full-size Fine-mesh Bundle Test BFBT Benchmark - Volume III: Results of Phase I on Void Distribution
NEA/NSC/R(2020)6

In the past decade, a large amount of effort has been made towards the direct simulation of the boiling transition (BT) for Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) fuel bundles. This international benchmark, bas...

English Boiling water reactors Nuclear science Nuclear safety WPRS Thermal hydraulics and mechanics EGTHM Reactor physics Reactor physics Nuclear science Benchmark …
Published date: 1 June 2021
NEA Document
Benchmark Specifications for the Fluoride-salt High-temperature Reactor (FHR) Reactor Physics Calculations
NEA/NSC/R(2020)5

This benchmark focuses on FHR reactors with plates and triso fuel. Several phases are planned, starting with neutronics on a simple fuel element simulation without burn-up, and gradually extending to...

Reactor physics Nuclear science EGPRS Verification WPRS Nuclear science Reactor physics …
Published date: 4 June 2021
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Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) Coupled Neutronics/Thermal-hydraulics Transients Benchmark - PBMR-400 Core Design

The international benchmark concerned pebble bed modular reactor (PBMR) coupled neutronics/thermal-hydraulics transients based on the PBMR-400MW design.

SMR Gas-cooled reactors Thermal hydraulics Verification Multiphysics Benchmark Reactor physics Multiphysics …
Published date: 26 July 2021
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Neutron noise analysis

Neutron noise analysis can be defined as the direct measurement of the kinetics of a nuclear core. This page describes some of the NEA's previous activities on neutron noise analysis in nuclear power...

Nuclear science Fast reactor Benchmark Reactor physics
Published date: 26 July 2021
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Physics of plutonium recycling

For nuclear utility companies that opt to reprocess spent fuel, recycle it or do both, one of the main pertinent issues is plutonium recycling.

Reactor physics Plutonium Nuclear fuel cycle Reactor physics
Published date: 8 September 2021
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Benchmark of the Modular High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor-350 MW Core Design

Helium-cooled very high-temperature gas reactors are highlighted as a key technology with the potential to improve the competitiveness of nuclear energy within the Generation IV International Forum (...

Gas-cooled reactors Reactor physics
Published date: 20 September 2021
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International review of benchmark experiments

ICSBEP, SINBAD AND IRPhEP Technical Review Group meetings, October 2021.

News brief Criticality safety Nuclear science SINBAD ICSBEP IRPhEP Reactor physics …
Published date: 25 October 2021
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Expert Group on Uncertainty Analysis in Modelling (EGUAM)

The expert group provided advice to the Working Party on Scientific Issues of Reactor Systems (WPRS) on the scientific development needs (data and methods, validation experiments, scenario studies) o...

EGUAM Boiling water reactors Nuclear science Light water reactors WPRS Reactor physics Modelling and simulation Reactor physics Uncertainty quantification Uncertainty analysis Benchmark Pressurised water reactors …
Published date: 27 October 2021
NEA Document
Coupled Neutronic/Thermal-Fluid Benchmark of the MHTGR-350 MW Core Design: Results for the Lattice Physics Exercises
NEA/NSC/R(2019)6

The purpose of this prismatic High Temperature Reactor (HTR) benchmark is to provide a solution set that can be used in future code benchmarking and to better understand the effects induced by the pr...

English Nuclear science WPRS Multiphysics EGTHM Reactor physics Multiphysics EGMUP Reactor physics NSC EGPRS Nuclear science …
Published date: 18 November 2021