Estimate of the reactivity of the VENUS-F subcritical configuration using a Monte Carlo MSM method

JL Lecouey, N Marie, G Ban, G Bianchini… - Annals of Nuclear …, 2015 - Elsevier
The GUINEVERE project was launched in 2006 in order to study the feasibility of
transmutation in Accelerator Driven subcritical Systems (ADS). This facility, hosted at the …

CABRI facility upgrade, refurbishment, recommissioning and experimental capacities

JP Hudelot, E Fontanay, C Molin, A Moreau… - PHYSOR 2016: The …, 2016 - cea.hal.science
This paper describes the recent upgrade, the refurbishment, the safety reassessment and
therecommissioning of the CABRI facility. It also presents the organization of the …

A reactivity meter with uncertainties

A dos Santos - Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Three sets of effective kinetics parameters were measured and evaluated for the fuel rod
core of the IPEN/MB-01 research reactor. A correlation matrix among all these effective …

Reactivity monitoring using the area method for the subcritic al VENUS-F core within the framework of the FREYA Project

N Marie, G Lehaut, JL Lecouey, A Billebaud… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2013 - arxiv.org
Accelerator-Driven Systems (ADS) could be employed to incinerate minor actinides and so
partly contribute to answer the problem of nuclear waste management. An ADS consists of …

Deep Subcriticality Determination Using the Source Jerk Integral Method in the SALMON Program

A Kochetkov, A Krása, N Messaoudi… - Nuclear Science and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract The Source Jerk Integral (SJI) method has been extensively used to determine the
subcriticality in VENUS-F zero-power experiments since 2012. The obtained results were in …

Experimental results from the VENUS-F critical reference state for the GUINEVERE accelerator driven system project

W Uyttenhove, P Baeten, G Ban… - … on Advancements in …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The GUINEVERE (Generation of Uninterrupted Intense NEutron pulses at the lead VEnus
REactor) project was launched in 2006 within the framework of FP6 EUROTRANS in order …

Neutron commissioning in the new CABRI water loop facility

G Ritter, O Guéton, F Mellier… - 2009 1st International …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The CABRI experimental reactor is located at the Cadarache nuclear research center,
southern France. It has been successfully operated by CEA during the last 30 years …

Monte Carlo MSM correction factors for control rod worth estimates in subcritical and near-critical fast neutron reactors

JL Lecouey, A Kochetkov, A Krása, P Baeten… - EPJ N-Nuclear …, 2015 - hal.in2p3.fr
The GUINEVERE project was launched in 2006, within the 6th Euratom Framework Program
IP-EUROTRANS, in order to study the feasibility of transmutation in Accelerator Driven …

Zero-power noise up to 100 kHz in the IPEN/MB-01 research reactor facility

DF dos Santos, A dos Santos - Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Subcritical noise experiments at frequencies up to 100 kHz employing two distinct boron
dilution in the reactor tank water (286.8 and 578.6 ppm of natural boron) were performed in …

[PDF][PDF] Subcritical boron experiments in the IPEN/MB-01 reactor

A Dos Santos, GS Souza, DF Santos… - RRFM European …, 2019 - repositorio.ipen.br
Macroscopic (APSD and CPSD) and microscopic (Rossi-α) neutron noise experiments were
performed in the IPEN/MB-01 reactor in order to measure subcritical reactivities. Subcritical …