Doctorat en Enginyeria Nuclear i de les Radiacions Ionitzants

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  • Measurement of the neutron flux at the Canfranc underground laboratory with HENSA 

    Orrigo, Sonja; Taín Enríquez, José Luis; Mont i Geli, Nil; Tarifeño Saldivia, Ariel Esteban; Fraile, L. M.; Grieger, Marcel; Agramunt Ros, Jorge; Algora, Alejandro; Bemmerer, Daniel; Calviño Tavares, Francisco; Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere; Blas del Hoyo, Alfredo de; Dillmann, Iris; Domínguez Bugarín, Araceli; García Sánchez, Roger; Nacher González, Enrique; Tolosa Delgado, Alvaro (Institute of Physics (IOP), 2021)
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    We have performed a long-term measurement of the neutron flux with the High Efficiency Neutron Spectrometry Array HENSA in the Hall A of the Canfranc Underground Laboratory. The Hall A measurement campaign lasted from ...

  • Characterizing the automatic radon flux transfer standard system autoflux: laboratory calibration and field experiments 

    Grossi, Claudia; Rábago, Daniel; Sainz, Carlos; Curcoll Masanes, Roger; Otáhal, Petr; Fialova, Eliska; Quindós, Luis; Vargas Drechsler, Arturo (European Geosciences Union (EGU), 2023-05-31)
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    High-quality, long-term measurements of terrestrial trace gas emissions are important for investigations of atmospheric, geophysical and biological processes to help mitigate climate change and protect the environment and ...

  • Variability of methane fluxes at the Ebro Delta due to rice field: comparison between inventories and Radon Tracer Method based results. 

    Curcoll Masanes, Roger; Morguí, Josep-Anton; Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Vargas Drechsler, Arturo; Grossi, Claudia (2023)
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    The Ebro River Delta, in the northwestern Mediterranean basin, has an extension of 320 km2 and is mainly covered by rice fields. Rice fields are known to be one of the main sources of anthropogenic methane emissions, and ...

  • PyMCGPU-IR Monte Carlo code test for occupational dosimetry 

    García Balcaza, Víctor; Fernández Bosman, David; Badal Soler, Andreu; Von Barnekow, Ariel; O'Connor, Una; Camp Brunés, Anna; Aranda López, Juan; Ginjaume Egido, Mercè; Duch Guillen, María Amor (2023-05-24)
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    PyMCGPU-IR is an innovative occupational dose monitoring tool for interventional radiology procedures. It reads the radiation data from the Radiation Dose Structured Report of the procedure and combines this information ...

  • Validation and verification of a quasi two-dimensional turbulence model and an eddy detection method for liquid metal magnetohydrodynamics flows 

    Suárez Cambra, Daniel; Iraola de Acevedo, Eduardo; Serrat Serra, Joaquim; Mas de les Valls Ortiz, Elisabet; Futatani, Shimpei; Batet Miracle, Lluís (2023-03-02)
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    The flow of liquid metals in straight rectangular channels with an externally applied transverse magnetic field is considered for breeding blankets in tokamak fusion reactors. Under the tokamak magnetic field, the liquid ...

  • Scaling Effect in an intermediate Break LOCA scenario 

    Martin Gil, Kevin; Freixa Terradas, Jordi; Martínez Quiroga, Víctor Manuel (2022)
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    Scaling studies in the field of nuclear thermalhydraulics have been carried out to analyze and extrapolate phenomenology from Integral Test Facilities (ITFs) to operating full size Nuclear Power Plants (NPP). The Power-to-Volume ...

  • The Equivalency of Theoretical and Monte Carlo Approaches in Neutron Transport: the case of simplified slowing-down 

    Al Awad, Abdulrahman; Calviño Tavares, Francisco; Batet Miracle, Lluís (2022)
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    For purposes of engineering education, computer experiments or simulations are powerful tools to demonstrate and emphasize physical concepts instead of relying on complex and ambiguous mathematics. The main advantage of ...

  • Atomistic simulations and theoretical predictions of helium nucleation in liquid Pb-Li eutectic alloy 

    Al Awad, Abdulrahman; Batet Miracle, Lluís; Sedano Miguel, Luis Ángel (2022)
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    Liquid Lead-Lithium Eutectic (LLE) alloy is a promising candidate coolant and/or breeder to attain tritium self-sufficiency in the EU DEMO breeding blanket design. Liquid metals are characterized with excellent heat-transport ...

  • The solubility of Helium in lead-lithium eutectic alloy 

    Sedano Miguel, Luis Ángel; ESTEBAN ALCALA, GUSTAVO ADOLFO; Cavaro, M; Iraola de Acevedo, Eduardo; Batet Miracle, Lluís; Al Awad, Abdulrahman (2021)
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  • The DESPEC setup for GSI and FAIR 

    Tarifeño Saldivia, Ariel Esteban; de Blas, Alfredo; Mont i Geli, Nil; Pallás Cabello, M. Elvira; Hall, O; Hubbard, Nicolas J.; Agramunt Ros, Jorge; Alcayne Aicua, Víctor; Algora, A.; Cano Ott, Daniel; Guadilla, Victor; Mistry, Andrew Kishor; Arici, Tugba; Banerjee, Akashrup; Benzoni, Giovanna; Cederwall, Bo; Gerl, Juergen; Górska, Magdalena; Hall, Oscar; Hubbard, Nicolas; Kojouharov, Ivan M.; Jolie, Jan (Elsevier, 2022-04-06)
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    The DEcay SPECtroscopy (DESPEC) setup for nuclear structure investigations was developed and commissioned at GSI, Germany in preparation for a full campaign of experiments at the FRS and Super-FRS. In this paper, we report ...

  • A Formal Verification and Validation of a Low Magnetic Reynolds Number MHD Code for Fusion Applications 

    Suárez Cambra, Daniel; Khodak, Andrei; Mas de les Valls Ortiz, Elisabet; Batet Miracle, Lluís (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022-01-01)
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    As the nuclear fusion research advances, resear-chers and engineers focus more on the design of the required systems that complement the nuclear fusion reaction in the plasma of a Tokamak. Some proposals for breeding ...

  • Feasibility study of computational occupational dosimetry: evaluating a proof-of-concept in an endovascular and interventional cardiology setting 

    O'Connor, Una; Walsh, Colin; Gorman, Dermot; O'Reilly, Geraldine; Martin, Zenia; Madhavan, Prakash; Murphy, Ross; Szirt, Richard; Almén, Anja; Andersson, Martin; Camp Brunés, Anna; García Balcaza, Víctor; Duch Guillen, María Amor; Ginjaume Egido, Mercè; Abdelrahman, Mahmoud; Lombardo, Pasquale; Vanhavere, Filip (2022-10-05)
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    Individual monitoring of radiation workers is essential to ensure compliance with legal dose limits and to ensure that doses are As Low As Reasonably Achievable. However, large uncertainties still exist in personal dosimetry ...

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