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Deep Isolation validates its disposal canister for TRISO spent fuel
Nuclear waste disposal technology company Deep Isolation announced it has successfully completed Project PUCK, a government-funded initiative to demonstrate the feasibility and potential commercial readiness of its Universal Canister System (UCS) to manage TRISO spent nuclear fuel.
Ander Gray, Andrew Davis, Edoardo Patelli
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 77 | Number 7 | November 2021 | Pages 802-812
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2021.1895667
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In this paper we perform nuclear data uncertain propagation with Total Monte Carlo, where the transport simulation is repeated for random evaluations of the data. The Oktavian Iron, Oktavian Nickel, and the Frascati Neutron Generator (FNG) neutron streaming SINBAD benchmarks were evaluated with OpenMC. Gaussian random deviates were drawn from the ENDF/B-VII.1 and TENDL-2017 libraries where the covariances were available. Uncertainty from multiple nuclides was propagated simultaneously assuming inter-nuclide independence. When the individual statistical uncertainty is negligible compared to the data uncertainty, then standard probability theory may be applied. If this is not the case and both need to be considered, we use Imprecise Probabilities (IP) to perform further analysis. We show how uncertain experimental data may be compared to uncertain simulation in the context of IP, and show how an uncertainty-based sensitivity analysis can be performed with IP.