Published 1985
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Book
Nuclear data qualification through French LWR integral experiments
- 1. CEA Cadarache 13115, Saint-Paul-Lez-Durance
Description
For ten years the Light Water Reactor Department of the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) has performed an exhaustive experimental program, based on several facilities, in order to qualify neutronic computer codes. Specific critical experiments have been performed in the EOLE and MINERVE zero power reactors. LWR assemblies were burned at the center of an experimental irradiation reactor called MELUSINE. Sensitivity studies on interpretation results, as well as spent fuel analysis of Framatome PWR's, allowed us to improve the multigroup library of heavy isotopes. Nuclear data such as ν/sup 25/, thermal σ/sup 25/, σ/sup 28/(n, 2n) and Γγ/sup 28/ was deduced
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- Gordon and Breach.
- Imprint Place
- New York, NY (USA)
- ISBN
- 0-677-21330-1
- Imprint Title
- Nuclear data for basic and applied science. Volume 1
- Journal Page Range
- p. 509-515.
Conference
- Title
- International conference on nuclear data for basic and applied science.
- Dates
- 13-17 May 1985.
- Place
- Santa Fe, NM (USA).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 18032567
- Subject category
- S22: GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS; S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; CEA; COMPUTER CODES; CROSS SECTIONS; EOLE REACTOR; FISSION PRODUCTS; FUEL ASSEMBLIES; GAMMA SPECTRA; GAMMA TRANSPORT THEORY; HEAVY NUCLEI; MELUSINE-1 REACTOR; MINERVE REACTOR; MULTI-ELEMENT ANALYSIS; NEUTRON REACTIONS; NEUTRON TRANSPORT THEORY; NUCLEAR DATA COLLECTIONS; NUCLEAR FUELS; PWR TYPE REACTORS; RESEARCH PROGRAMS; SPENT FUELS
- Descriptors DEC
- BARYON REACTIONS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ENERGY SOURCES; ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS; EXPERIMENTAL REACTORS; FRENCH ORGANIZATIONS; FUELS; HADRON REACTIONS; HEAVY WATER COOLED REACTORS; HEAVY WATER MODERATED REACTORS; IRRADIATION REACTORS; ISOTOPE PRODUCTION REACTORS; ISOTOPES; MATERIALS; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; NONDESTRUCTIVE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR REACTIONS; NUCLEI; NUCLEON REACTIONS; POOL TYPE REACTORS; POWER REACTORS; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; REACTOR MATERIALS; REACTORS; RESEARCH AND TEST REACTORS; RESEARCH REACTORS; SPECTRA; TANK TYPE REACTORS; THERMAL REACTORS; TRAINING REACTORS; TRANSPORT THEORY; WATER COOLED REACTORS; WATER MODERATED REACTORS; ZERO POWER REACTORS