The TENDL library: Hope, reality and future

D Rochman, AJ Koning, JC Sublet… - EPJ web of …, 2017 - epj-conferences.org
The TALYS Evaluated Nuclear Data Library (TENDL) has now 8 releases since 2008.
Considerable experience has been acquired for the production of such general-purpose …

Nuclear data uncertainties for typical LWR fuel assemblies and a simple reactor core

D Rochman, O Leray, M Hursin, H Ferroukhi… - Nuclear Data …, 2017 - Elsevier
The impact of the current nuclear data library covariances such as in ENDF/B-VII. 1, JEFF-
3.2, JENDL-4.0, SCALE and TENDL, for relevant current reactors is presented in this work …

Extension of SCALE/Sampler's sensitivity analysis

F Bostelmann, D Wiarda, G Arbanas… - Annals of Nuclear …, 2022 - Elsevier
Nuclear data are a major source of uncertainties in reactor physics calculations. The
propagation of nuclear data uncertainties to important system responses is instrumental …

XGPT: Extending Monte Carlo Generalized Perturbation Theory capabilities to continuous-energy sensitivity functions

M Aufiero, M Martin, M Fratoni - Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
The XGPT method extends the Generalized Perturbation Theory capabilities of Monte Carlo
codes to continuous-energy sensitivity functions. In this work, this method is proposed as a …

Sensitivity and uncertainty analysis of neutron activation source terms based on statistical sampling method

X Yu, J Zhang, Y Xiao, W Ni, J Wang - Progress in Nuclear Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
The calculation of neutron activation source terms is an essential task in the radiation of
nuclear reactors, and its sensitivity and uncertainty (S&U) analysis can help better identify …

Stochastic vs. sensitivity-based integral parameter and nuclear data adjustments

D Siefman, M Hursin, D Rochman… - … Physical Journal Plus, 2018 - epjplus.epj.org
Developments in data assimilation theory allow to adjust integral parameters and cross
sections with stochastic sampling. This work investigates how two stochastic methods …

[HTML][HTML] Uncertainty analyses of neutron noise simulations in a zero-power reactor

S Yum, M Hursin, A Vasiliev, P Vinai… - Annals of Nuclear …, 2022 - Elsevier
A comprehensive uncertainty analysis methodology has been established for the modeling
of stationary neutron flux oscillations induced by fuel rods vibration in a zero-power reactor …

Uncertainty Quantification of a Light Water Pulsed-Neutron Die-Away Experiment to Thermal Neutron Scattering Laws

D Siefman, M Hursin, C Percher… - Nuclear Science and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Thermal neutron scattering laws are important nuclear data for many nuclear science and
engineering applications. Validation helps to ensure that a thermal neutron scattering law …

Nuclear data uncertainty quantification in criticality safety evaluations for spent nuclear fuel geological disposal

M Frankl, M Hursin, D Rochman, A Vasiliev… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Presently, a criticality safety evaluation methodology for the final geological disposal of
Swiss spent nuclear fuel is under development at the Paul Scherrer Institute in collaboration …

Development and application of data assimilation methods in reactor physics

DJ Siefman - 2019 - infoscience.epfl.ch
Simulations of nuclear reactor physics can disagree significantly from experimental
evidence, even when the most accurate models are used. An important part of this bias from …