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ANS hosts webinar on criticality safety standards
A diagram depicting the NRC’s regulatory structure for nuclear criticality safety. (Image: Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
The American Nuclear Society’s Risk-informed, Performance-based Principles and Policy Committee (RP3C) held another presentation in its monthly Community of Practice (CoP) series last month. RP3C chair Steven Krahn opened the meeting with brief introductory remarks about the importance of risk-informed, performance based (RIPB) decision-making and the need for new approaches to nuclear design that go beyond conventional and deterministic methods.
Technical Session
Wednesday, May 18, 2022|3:30–5:15PM EDT|Ellwood
Session Chair:
Paul Romano (ANL)
Alternate Chair:
Jaakko Leppänen
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Variance Analysis of the Coupling of Thermal-Hydraulics and Point Kinetics with Stochastic Noise Term Modeling Dynamic Monte Carlo Behavior for Later Use in GUARDYAN
Tamás Hajas (Budapest Univ. Technology and Economics), Gábor Tolnai (Budapest Univ. Technology and Economics), Dávid Légrády (Budapest Univ. Technology and Economics)
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Improving the Variance in Monte Carlo Criticality Calculations with Adaptive Multilevel Splitting
Kévin Fröhlicher (IRSN), Eric Dumonteil (CEA), Loic Thulliez (CEA), Julien Taforeau (IRSN), Mariya Brovchenko (IRSN)
Monte Carlo Source Convergence Acceleration with Multi-Group Inactive Cycles
Valeria Raffuzzi (Univ. Cambridge), Lee Morgan (AWE), Eugene Shwageraus (Univ. Cambridge), Paul Cosgrove (Univ. Cambridge)
Reactor Period Calculations by Monte Carlo Methods: Analysis of the SPERT III E-Core Reactivity Excursions
R. Hourcade (CEA), A. Jinaphanh (CEA), A. Zoia (CEA)
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