FY 21 ORNL Integral Experiment Work [Slides]
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Explicit Modeling of B 4 C in Neutron Absorber Plates with SCALE
Critical experiments play a vital role in the field of nuclear engineering because they provide essential data for validating computational models and ensure the safety and efficiency of nuclear phenomena.
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ORNL S/U Capabilities for Critical Experiment Design [Slides]
This presentation is on the Oak Ridge National Labatory (ORNL) S/U capabilities for critical experiment design. It covers a brief intro to TSUNAMI analysis for NCS validation. Additionally, it shows similarity indices and historical use of TSUNAMI for critical experiment design. It concludes with recent designs: IER-441, IER-304, and IER-554 (on-going).
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IER - 551: Experiment for Unresolved Resonance of Plutonium Actinides (EUROPA): CED-1 for True Intermediate Pu Benchmark
IER-551 or the Experiment for Unresolved Resonance Of Plutonium Actinides (EUROPA), is an experiment campaign to design and execute a series of true intermediate energy plutonium critical configurations. EUROPA is a collaboration between Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and the French Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN) to validate current and future evaluations of 239,240 Pu isotopes. Preliminary designs were optimized using Particle Swarm Optimization to save on computation time and the configuration with highest percentage of intermediate neutrons causing fission found was BeO-Cd. This combination has over 70% of fissions occurring from intermediate energy neutrons. Secondary considerations regarding end benchmark uncertainties and quality of nuclear data resulted in a beryllium metal only experiment proposed as the final system. This final preliminary design achieves 68% intermediate fissions, sensitivities of fission and capture cross sections of 239 Pu of 0.3021 and -0.1610 respectively.
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Integral Experiment Request 441 CED-4a Summary Report
Under IER-441, critical experiments were done with and without tantalum test rods within a central test region surrounded by 7uPCX fuel rods. The experiments were done in new critical assembly hardware designed to support the 7uPCX fuel in a 1.02 cm triangular-pitched array
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