{"title":"ORCA: A Tool for Radiological Consequences for Accidental Releases","authors":"P. Maka, E. Van Heerden, M. Rezaee","doi":"10.1080/00295639.2024.2315905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2024.2315905","url":null,"abstract":"Evaluating atmospheric dispersion and radiological doses in the vicinity of buildings is required for small modular reactors (SMRs) because of the reduced size of their exclusion area boundary. The...","PeriodicalId":19436,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Science and Engineering","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140036112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hao Luo, Kaiwen Li, Nan An, Shanfang Huang, Kan Wang
{"title":"New RMC Energy Deposition Treatment and its Application in Multi-Physics Simulation","authors":"Hao Luo, Kaiwen Li, Nan An, Shanfang Huang, Kan Wang","doi":"10.1080/00295639.2024.2316955","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2024.2316955","url":null,"abstract":"Accurate estimation of energy deposition is important in core physics and severe accident analyses for design optimizations. In this study, a new energy deposition treatment is implemented in the R...","PeriodicalId":19436,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Science and Engineering","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140007625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the Use of the Jacobian-Free Newton Krylov Method to Generate One-Group Discontinuity and Super Homogenization Factors for Full-Core Neutron Diffusion Simulations","authors":"Bailey Painter, Dan Kotlyar","doi":"10.1080/00295639.2024.2303548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2024.2303548","url":null,"abstract":"Coupled Monte Carlo (MC) and thermal-hydraulic analysis is valuable as a design or reference tool but can be slow, especially when implemented in a Picard iteration. Previous work has developed a n...","PeriodicalId":19436,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Science and Engineering","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140007628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Examining the Contributions of Various Source Layers and Transport Pathways to Dose Rates Exterior to a Low- and Intermediate-Level Radioactive Waste Storage Facility Using ADVANTG/MCNP","authors":"Bo-Lun Lai, Szu-Li Chang, Rong-Jiun Sheu","doi":"10.1080/00295639.2024.2318834","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2024.2318834","url":null,"abstract":"An in-depth shielding analysis of a large indoor facility designed for storing low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste generated from nuclear power plant decommissioning was performed. The fa...","PeriodicalId":19436,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Science and Engineering","volume":"102 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140007772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Review of Neutron–Gamma-Ray Discrimination Methods Using Organic Scintillators","authors":"Imane Ahnouz, Hanan Arahmane, Rajaa Sebihi","doi":"10.1080/00295639.2024.2316946","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2024.2316946","url":null,"abstract":"Neutron detection is increasingly vital in various fields such as homeland security, medical sciences, and high-energy physics. However, interference from accompanying gamma rays poses a critical c...","PeriodicalId":19436,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Science and Engineering","volume":"102 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140007721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Thomas Folk, Siddhartha Srivastava, Dean Price, Krishna Garikipati, Brendan Kochunas
{"title":"Analytic Error Analysis of the Partial Derivatives Cross-Section Model—II: Numerical Results","authors":"Thomas Folk, Siddhartha Srivastava, Dean Price, Krishna Garikipati, Brendan Kochunas","doi":"10.1080/00295639.2024.2303544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2024.2303544","url":null,"abstract":"Accurately predicting errors incurred in a cross-section model for two-step reactor analysis enables the development of optimal case matrices and more efficient cross-section models. In a companion...","PeriodicalId":19436,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Science and Engineering","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140007723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Theophile Bonnet, Hunter Belanger, Davide Mancusi, Andrea Zoia
{"title":"The Effect of Branchless Collisions and Population Control on Correlations in Monte Carlo Power Iteration","authors":"Theophile Bonnet, Hunter Belanger, Davide Mancusi, Andrea Zoia","doi":"10.1080/00295639.2023.2288328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2023.2288328","url":null,"abstract":"The investigation of correlations in Monte Carlo power iteration has long been dominated by the question of generational correlations and their effects on the estimation of statistical uncertaintie...","PeriodicalId":19436,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Science and Engineering","volume":"275 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140007544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pre-Experimental Assessment of Uranyl Nitrate Solution Irradiation in Kartini Reactor Facilities","authors":"Feryantama Putra, Syarip, Sihana","doi":"10.1080/00295639.2024.2306103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2024.2306103","url":null,"abstract":"Medical radioisotope production using neutron irradiation via fission reaction requires a sufficient neutron source. The Kartini reactor has been proposed and studied to become a neutron source for...","PeriodicalId":19436,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Science and Engineering","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140007719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Resonance Calculation of FCM Fuel Based on the Global-Local Method","authors":"Siyu Yi, Zhouyu Liu, Kunpeng Wang, Wei Shen, Tiejun Zu, Liangzhi Cao, Hongchun Wu","doi":"10.1080/00295639.2023.2296239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2023.2296239","url":null,"abstract":"Fully ceramic microencapsulated fuels is a promising potential fuel for pressurized water reactors because of its inherent safety, but double heterogeneity (DH) brings challenges to the neutronic c...","PeriodicalId":19436,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Science and Engineering","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140007793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recovering From Structural Instability in Nuclear Power Design Optimization","authors":"Dominic J. Brennan, Geoffrey T. Parks","doi":"10.1080/00295639.2024.2306707","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2024.2306707","url":null,"abstract":"The Scientific Method—parsing a problem into isolated subproblems—is often necessarily employed in optimization efforts to reduce large and complex problems into more tractable parcels. However, ad...","PeriodicalId":19436,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Science and Engineering","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140007795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}