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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.
Stefano Segantin, Bamidele Ebiwonjumi, Ethan Peterson
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 81 | Number 5 | July 2025 | Pages 437-447
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2024.2400762
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In this work, we benchmark OpenMC against the FNG-ITER streaming experiment. FNG-ITER streaming, a high-quality experiment carried out at the ENEA laboratories in Frascati, Italy, was initially included in SINBAD (Shielding Integral Benchmark Archive and Database). More recently, the benchmark was included in the Compilation of Nuclear Data Experiments for Radiation Characterization as well. It consists of a neutron shielding experiment with a rather complex geometry that constitutes an appropriate validation study for the use of weight windows within OpenMC. Measurements include flux detection via four different types of activation foils divided into three batches and a set of thermoluminescent detectors for nuclear heating. The OpenMC results are in very good agreement with those of MCNP and the experimental measurements, with the majority of the discrepancies within the combined statistical error and experimental uncertainty (less than 10% computed measured discrepancy).