NUCLEAR DATA NEEDS FOR GENERATION IV NUCLEAR ENERGY SYSTEMS

NUCLEAR DATA NEEDS FOR GENERATION IV NUCLEAR ENERGY SYSTEMS
Proceedings of the International Workshop

Antwerpen, Belgium, 5 - 7 April 2005

CONTENTS


FRONT MATTER	i
Nuclear Data Needs for Generation IV systems
FUTURE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY AND THE ROLE OF NUCLEAR DATA P. FINCK	3
NUCLEAR DATA NEEDS FOR GENERATION IV NUCLEAR ENERGY SYSTEMS – SUMMARY OF U.S. WORKSHOP T. A. TAIWO and H. S. KHALIL	8
NUCLEAR DATA NEEDS FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF GEN IV SYSTEMS GERALD RIMPAULT	18
NUCLEAR DATA NEEDS FOR GENERATION IV - LESSONS FROM BENCHMARKS? S.C. VAN DER MARCK, A. HOGENBIRK and M.C. DUIJVESTIJN	32
CORE DESIGN ISSUES OF THE SUPERCRITCAL WATER FAST REACTOR MAGNUS MORI, ANDREI RINEISKI, WERNER MASCHEK and VALENTIN SINITSA	38
GFR CORE NEUTRONICS STUDIES AT CEA J.C. BOSQ, V. BRUN-MAGAUD, G. RIMPAULT, J. TOMMASI, A. CONTI and J.C. GARNIER	46
COMPARATIVE STUDY ON DIFFERENT PHONON FREQUENCY SPECTRA OF GRAPHITE IN GCR YOUNG-SIK CHO, KANG-SEOG KIM, DO HEON KIM, YOUNG-OUK LEE and JONGHWA CHANG	58
INNOVATIVE FUEL TYPES FOR MINOR ACTINIDES TRANSMUTATION D. HAAS, A. FERNANDEZ and J. SOMERS	64
THE IMPORTANCE OF NUCLEAR DATA IN MODELING AND DESIGNING GENERATION IV FAST REACTORS KEVAN D. WEAVER	70
THE GIF AND MEXICO “EVERYTHING BEGINS WITH A WISH” CARLOS ARREDONDO-SÁNCHEZ	72
Benchmarks, Sensitivity Calculations, Uncertainties
SENSITIVITY OF ADVANCED REACTOR AND FUEL CYCLE PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS TO NUCLEAR DATA UNCERTAINTIES G. ALIBERTI, G. PALMIOTTI, M. SALVATORES, T. K. KIM, T. A. TAIWO, I. KODELI, E. SARTORI, J.C. BOSQ and J. TOMMASI	81
SENSITIVITY AND UNCERTAINTY STUDY FOR THERMAL MOLTEN SALT REACTORS ADRIEN BIDAUD, TATIANA IVANONA, VICTOR MASTRANGELO and IVO KODELI	101
INTEGRAL REACTOR PHYSICS BENCHMARKS – THE INTERNATIONAL CRITICALITY SAFETY BENCHMARK EVALUATION PROJECT (ICSBEP) AND THE INTERNATIONAL REACTOR PHYSICS EXPERIMENT EVALUATION PROJECT (IRPHEP) J. BLAIR BRIGGS, DAVID W. NIGG and ENRICO SARTORI	113
COMPUTER MODEL OF AN ERROR PROPAGATION THROUGH MICRO-CAMPAIGN OF FAST NEUTRON GAS COOLED NUCLEAR REACTOR EVGUENI IVANOV	128
COMBINING DIFFERENTIAL AND INTEGRAL EXPERIMENTS ON ²³⁹PU FOR REDUCING UNCERTAINTIES IN NUCLEAR DATA APPLICATIONS T. KAWANO, K. M. HANSON, S. C. FRANKLE, P. TALOU, M. B. CHADWICK and R. C. LITTLE	138
SENSITIVITY OF ACTIVATION CROSS SECTIONS OF THE HAFNIUM, TANTALUM AND TUNGSTEN STABLE ISOTOPES TO NUCLEAR REACTION MECHANISMS V. AVRIGEANU, M. AVRIGEANU, F.L. ROMAN, R.A. FORREST, R. EICHIN, H. FREIESLEBEN and K. SEIDEL	145
GENERATING COVARIANCE DATA WITH NUCLEAR MODELS A.J. KONING	153
SENSITIVITY OF CANDU-SCWR REACTOR PHYSICS CALCULATIONS TO NUCLEAR DATA FILES K.S. KOZIER and G.R. DYCK	163
THE LEAD COOLED FAST REACTOR BENCHMARK BREST-300: ANALYSIS WITH SENSITIVITY METHOD VALERY SMIRNOV, VICTOR ORLOV, ALEXANDRE MOUROGOV, DAVID LECARPENTIER and TATIANA IVANOVA	173
SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF NEUTRON CROSS-SECTIONS CONSIDERED FOR DESIGN AND SAFETY STUDIES OF LFR AND SFR GENERATION IV SYSTEMS KAMIL TUCEK, JOHAN CARLSSON and HARTMUT WIDER	183
Experiments
INL CAPABILITIES FOR NUCLEAR DATA MEASUREMENTS USING THE ARGONNE INTENSE PULSED NEUTRON SOURCE FACILITY J.D. COLE, M.W. DRIGERT, R. ARYAEINEJAD, D.W. NIGG, R.V.F. JANSSENS, B.J. MICKLICH and G. TER-AKOPIAN	195
CROSS-SECTION MEASUREMENTS IN THE FAST NEUTRON ENERGY RANGE ARJAN PLOMPEN	208
RECENT MEASUREMENTS OF NEUTRON CAPTURE CROSS SECTIONS FOR MINOR ACTINIDES BY A JNC AND KYOTO UNIVERSITY GROUP HIDEO HARADA, HIROSHI SAKANE, SHOJI NAKAMURA, KAZUYOSHI FURUTAKA, JUN-ICHI HORI, TOSHIYUKI FUJII and HAJIMU YAMANA	216
DETERMINATION OF MINOR ACTINIDES FISSION CROSS SECTIONS BY MEANS OF TRANSFER REACTIONS M. AICHE, G. BARREAU, S. BOYER, S. CZAJKOWSKI, D. DASSIÉ, C. GROSJEAN, A. GUIRAL, B. HAAS, B. JURADO, B. OSMANOV, E. BAUGE, M PETIT, E. BERTHOUMIEUX, F. GUNSING, L. PERROT, C. THEISEN, F. MICHEL-SENDIS, A. BILLEBAUD, J. N. WILSON, I. AHMAD, J.P. GREENE and R.V.F. JANSSENS	222
Evaluated Data Libraries
NUCLEAR DATA SERVICES FROM THE NEA HANS HENRIKSSON and YOLANDA RUGAMA	235
NUCLEAR DATABASES FOR ENERGY APPLICATIONS: AN IAEA PERSPECTIVE ROBERTO CAPOTE NOY, ALAN L. NICHOLS and ANDREJ TRKOV	244
NUCLEAR DATA EVALUATION FOR GENERATION IV G. NOGUERE, O. BOULAND, A. COURCELLE, E. DUPONT, O. SEROT and J.C. SUBLET	253
IMPROVED EVALUATIONS OF NEUTRON-INDUCED REACTIONS ON AMERICIUM ISOTOPES P. TALOU, T. KAWANO, P.G. YOUNG, M.B. CHADWICK and E.J. PITCHER	262
USING IMPROVED ENDF-BASED NUCLEAR DATA FOR CANDU REACTOR CALCULATIONS IOSIF PRODEA	270
A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON THE GRAPHITE-MODERATED REACTORS USING DIFFERENT EVALUATED NUCLEAR DATA DO HEON KIM, C.-S. GIL, Y.-S. CHO, Y.-O. LEE and J. CHANG	278
BACK MATTER	285
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