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  • 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 ...

  • High accuracy, high resolution 235U(n,f) cross section from n_TOF (CERN) from 18 meV to 10 keV 

    Mastromarco, Mario; Amaducci, Simone; Colonna, Nicola; Finocchiaro, Paolo; Cosentino, Luigi; Barbagallo, Massimo; Aberle, O.; Andrzejewski, Józef; Audouin, Ludmila; Bacak, Michael; Balibrea-Correa, J.; Becvar, F.; Berthoumieux, Eric; Billowes, J.; Bosnar, Damir; Calviño Tavares, Francisco; Casanovas Hoste, Adrià; Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere; Tarifeño Saldivia, Ariel Esteban (Springer Nature, 2022-08-01)
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    U(n,f) cross section was measured in a wide energy range (18 meV–170 keV) at the n_TOF facility at CERN, relative to 6Li(n,t) and 10B(n,a) standard reactions, with high resolution and accuracy, with a setup based on a stack ...

  • Long-term evolution of the neutron rate at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory 

    Orrigo, S.; Taín Enríquez, José Luis; Mont i Geli, Nil; Tarifeño Saldivia, Ariel Esteban; Fraile, L. M.; Grieger, Marcel; Agramunt Ros, Jorge; Algora, A.; Bemmerer, D.; Calviño Tavares, Francisco; Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere; de Blas, Alfredo; Dillmann, Iris; Domínguez Bugarín, Araceli; Nacher González, Enrique; Tolosa Delgado, Alvaro (springer-Verlag, 2022-09-13)
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    We report results on the long-term variation of the neutron counting rate at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory, of importance for several low-background experiments installed there, including rare-event searches. The ...

  • Measuring the ß-decay Properties of Neutron-rich Exotic Pm, Sm, Eu, and Gd Isotopes to Constrain the Nucleosynthesis Yields in the Rare-earth Region 

    Kiss, Gábor Gyula; Vitéz Sveiczer, András; Saito, Yukiya; Tarifeño Saldivia, Ariel Esteban; Pallàs i Solís, Max; Taín Enríquez, José Luis; Dillmann, Iris; Agramunt Ros, Jorge; Algora, A.; Domingo Pardo, César; Estrade, A; Appleton, Corrigan; Allmond, James Mitchell; Aguilera, Patricio; Baba, H. (Institute of Physics (IOP), 2022-09-06)
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    The ß-delayed neutron-emission probabilities of 28 exotic neutron-rich isotopes of Pm, Sm, Eu, and Gd were measured for the first time at RIKEN Nishina Center using the Advanced Implantation Detector Array (AIDA) and the ...

  • The solubility of helium in lead–lithium eutectic alloy 

    Sedano Miguel, Luis Ángel; Esteban, G.A.; Cavaro, Matthieu; Iraola de Acevedo, Eduardo; Al Awad, Abdulrahman; Batet Miracle, Lluís; Guasch, M. (Elsevier, 2022-06-01)
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    The helium production rates in liquid metals (Pb-Li eutectic alloy, LLE and others) Blanket Breeders (BB) are nearly mol-to-mol linked to tritium and intimately associated with the compulsory requirement of high tritium ...

  • Off-line vs. semi-implicit TH-TH coupling schemes: A BEPU comparison 

    Casamor Vidal, Max; Avramova, Maria; Reventós Puigjaner, Francesc Josep; Freixa Terradas, Jordi (2022-12)
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    Several TH-TH code coupling methods are used in the nuclear industry to model the core thermal–hydraulic conditions and the system behaviour. In some cases, the boundary conditions obtained by system codes are applied to ...

  • Multi-physics framework for whole-core analysis of transient fuel performance after load following in a pressurised water reactor 

    Peakman, Aiden; Gregg, Robert; Bennett, Tom; Casamor Vidal, Max; Martínez Quiroga, Víctor Manuel; Freixa Terradas, Jordi; Pericas Casals, Raimon; Rossiter, Glyn (2022-08-01)
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    The increasing deployment of renewable energy sources and greater electrification of demand is requiring more frequent use of load following in pressurised water reactors (PWRs) . A limiting aspect with respect to load ...

  • OECD/NEA PKL-4 benchmark activity. Code assessment of the relevant phenomena associated to a blind IBLOCA experiment 

    Martínez Quiroga, Víctor Manuel; Szogradi, Marton; Schollenberger, Simon; Sánchez Perea, Miguel; Sandberg, Nils; Zhongyun, J.; Freydier, P.; Freixa Terradas, Jordi (2022-04-01)
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    Code assessment and validation is one of the most relevant research lines in thermal hydraulics and best estimate codes. During the last decades, the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and the Organization for Economic Co-operation ...

  • First results from the HENSA/ANAIS collaboration at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory 

    Mont i Geli, Nil; Tarifeño Saldivia, Ariel Esteban; Orrigo, S.; Beristáin Jiménez, José Antonio; Agramunt Ros, Jorge; Camarero Palao, Julio A.; Bemmerer, D.; Calviño Tavares, Francisco; Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere; Dillmann, Iris; Tolosa Delgado, Alvaro (Institute of Physics (IOP), 2021-12-01)
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    The HENSA/ANAIS collaboration aims for the precise determination of the neutron flux that could affect ANAIS-112, an experiment looking for the dark matter annual modulation using NaI(Tl) scintillators. In this work, the ...

  • Methodology for phenomenological code assessment with integral test data 

    Pérez-Ferragut, Marina; Martínez Quiroga, Víctor Manuel; Casamor Vidal, Max; Freixa Terradas, Jordi (2022-02-28)
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    The use of codes in the licensing process requires a rigorous validation process that can be accomplished by means of qualitative and quantitative assessment. In thermal hydraulics, this validation has to be performed at ...

  • SMART_TC: an R&D Programme on uses of artificial intelligence techniques for tritium monitoring in complex ITER-like tritium plant systems 

    Iraola de Acevedo, Eduardo; Sedano Miguel, Luis Ángel; Nougués, José María; Feliu, Josep Anton; Coya, Bruno; Batet Miracle, Lluís (2021-05)
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    The realization of nuclear fusion energy is nowadays based on the concept of tritium breeding and the success of the ITER experiment. The latter relies today on a static monitoring approach to fulfill the emission limits ...

  • Plasma physics and control studies planned in JT-60SA for ITER and DEMO operations and risk mitigation 

    Yoshida, Maiko; Giruzzi, Gerardo; Aiba, Nobuyuki; Belonohy, Eva; De Tommasi, Giambattista; Futatani, Shimpei; Garzotti, Luca (2022-05-01)
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    Alarge superconducting machine, JT-60SA has been constructed to provide major contributions to the ITER program and DEMO design. For the success of the ITER project and fusion reactor, understanding and development of ...

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