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Gamma noise to non-invasively monitor nuclear research reactors

Pavel Frajtag, Andreas Pautz, Oskari Ville Pakari, Vincent Pierre Lamirand, Tom Mager

Autonomous nuclear reactor monitoring is a key aspect of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s strategy to ensure nonproliferation treaty compliance. From the rise of small modular reactor technology, decentralized nuclear reactor fleets may strain the ...

Nature Research2024

Wigner Gaussian dynamics: Simulating the anharmonic and quantum ionic motion

Lorenzo Monacelli

The atomic motion controls important properties of materials, such as thermal transport, phase transitions, and vibrational spectra. However, simulating the ionic dynamics is exceptionally challenging when quantum fluctuations are relevant (e.g., at low te ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2023

Atomic-level structure determination of amorphous molecular solids by NMR

Manuel Cordova, Arthur César Pinon, David Lyndon Emsley, Pinelopi Moutzouri

Structure determination of amorphous materials remains challenging, owing to the disorder inherent to these materials. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) powder crystallography is a powerful method to determine the structure of molecular solids, but disorder ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Efficient Semiclassical Evaluation of Electronic Coherences in Polyatomic Molecules

Jiri Vanicek, Nikolay Golubev

Exposing a molecule to an intense light pulse can create a nonstationary quantum state, thus launching correlated dynamics of electrons and nuclei. Although much had been achieved in the understanding of fundamental physics behind the electron-nuclear inte ...

SWISS CHEMICAL SOC2022

Data-Driven Predictive Models: Calculational Bias in Characterization of Spent Nuclear Fuel

Characteristics of the spent nuclear fuel (SNF) are typically calculated, requiring validation a priori. The validation process relies on the difference between calculations and measurements, namely the bias. Usually, predicting the bias based on benchmark ...

EPFL2022

Effect of Co-Substitution on Hydrogen Absorption and Desorption Reactions of YMgNi4-Based Alloys

Loris Giovanni Lombardo, Andreas Züttel, Wen Luo, Heena Yang

YMgNi4-based alloys exhibit reversible hydrogen absorption and desorption reactions at near room temperature. Here, we report that Co-substituted YMgNi4-based alloys exhibited higher hydrogen contents and lower hydrogen absorption and desorption reaction p ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Measurement of the prompt-production cross-section ratio sigma(chi(c2))/sigma(chi(c1)) in pPb collisions at root s(NN)=8.16 TeV

Christoph Frei, Peter Clarke, Aurelio Bay, Minh Tâm Tran, François Fleuret, Tatsuya Nakada, Guido Haefeli, Niko Neufeld, Olivier Schneider, Hans Dijkstra, Frédéric Teubert, Gerhard Raven, Mingkui Wang, Frédéric Blanc, Matthew Needham, Lesya Shchutska, Liang Sun, Marco Guarise, Chao Wang, Maxime Schubiger, Xiaoqing Zhou, Hang Yin, Xiaoxue Han, Paolo Durante, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Vladislav Balagura, Lino Ferreira Lopes, Zhirui Xu, Mark Tobin, Victor Coco, Violaine Bellée, Yu Zheng, Alexey Boldyrev, Simone Meloni, Maurizio Martinelli, Maxim Karpov, Tommaso Colombo, Maxim Borisyak, Dipanwita Dutta, Anton Petrov, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Data assimilation of post irradiation examination experiments to adjust fission yields

Andreas Pautz, Daniel Jerôme Siefman, Mathieu Hursin

Nuclear data, especially fission yields, create uncertainties in the predicted concentrations of fission products in spent fuel. Herein, we present a new framework that extends data assimilation methods to burnup simulations by using data from post-irradia ...

E D P SCIENCES2020

Synthesis, reactivity, and environmental relevance of uranyl(V) complexes

Radmila Faizova

Knowledge of fundamental chemical properties of all environmentally relevant uranium species is essential to understand environmental uranium mobility and develop novel remediation strate-gies. A myriad of uranium(VI) and uranium(IV) compounds has been stu ...

EPFL2020

Assessment of representativity of the PETALE experiments for validation of Swiss LWRs ex-core dosimetry calculations

Hakim Ferroukhi, Andreas Pautz, Alexander Vasiliev, Vincent Pierre Lamirand, Axel Guy Marie Laureau, Dimitri Rochman

The international experimental program PETALE will be carried out at the CROCUS research reactor of EPFL. The program aims at measuring neutron penetration in slabs made of materials composing typical LWR reactor pressure vessel. The measurements will be u ...

E D P SCIENCES2020

A risk-based multi-level stress test methodology: application to six critical non-nuclear infrastructures in Europe

Anton Schleiss, José Pedro Gamito de Saldanha Calado Matos, Daniela Rodrigues

Recent natural disasters that seriously affected critical infrastructure (CI) with significant socio-economic losses and impact revealed the need for the development of reliable methodologies for vulnerability and risk assessment. In this paper, a risk-bas ...

2020

First principles and integrated modelling achievements towards trustful fusion power predictions for JET and ITER

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Francesca Maria Poli, Duccio Testa, Emiliano Fable, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Daniele Brunetti, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Federico Nespoli, Anna Teplukhina, Leonardo Pigatto, Hamish William Patten, Alberto Mariani, Nicola Vianello, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Samuel Lanthaler, Cristian Sommariva, Davide Galassi, Alessandro Pau, Yao Zhou, Otto Asunta, Kenji Tanaka, Haomin Sun, Michele Marin, Yiming Li, Gergely Papp, Bernhard Sieglin

Predictability of burning plasmas is a key issue for designing and building credible future fusion devices. In this context, an important effort of physics understanding and guidance is being carried out in parallel to JET experimental campaigns in H and D ...

2019

Analysis of deposited layers with deuterium and impurity elements on samples from the divertor of JET with ITER-like wall

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Yves Martin, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Robin Humphry-Baker, Stefano Coda, Partha Dutta, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Vlad Trifa, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Magalie Diane Bassan, Sun Hee Kim, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, David Pfefferlé, Fernando Cortes Salazar, Petre Alexandru Arion, Jose Felix Vega Stavro, Lenke Horváth, Hugo Augusto Penedones Fernandes, Stéphanie Prior, Philippe Janson, Daniel Scott Alessi, Matthew Brown, Philippe Jean Buchs, Lorenzo Anton-Louis Talà, Mario Joe Lehmann, Pamela Solange Valdés Undurraga, Michael Oliver Reinke, Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta, Wei Tang, Albano António De Abreu E Presa De Castro E Sousa, Lyne Moser, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Determination of the activity inventory and associated uncertainty quantification for the CROCUS zero power research reactor

Pavel Frajtag, Andreas Pautz, Vincent Pierre Lamirand, Mathieu Hursin, DongHyuk Lee

The paper describes the source term estimation of CROCUS, the zero power research reactor of EPFL, to be used for dispersion analysis under accidental conditions. To fulfil regulatory requirements, the source term of the CROCUS fuel is estimated through Mo ...

2019

Development and Application of Data Assimilation Methods in Reactor Physics

Daniel Jerôme Siefman

Simulations of nuclear reactor physics can disagree significantly from experimental evidence, even when the most accurate models are used. An important part of this bias from experiment is caused by nuclear data. The nuclear data have inherent uncertaintie ...

EPFL2019

Intercomparison of neutron noise measurement systems in the CROCUS reactor

Andreas Pautz, Oskari Ville Pakari, Vincent Pierre Lamirand, Mathieu Hursin

In the framework of an international collaboration, the critical decay constant (α0 = β/Λ), and delayed neutron fraction (β) of the CROCUS reactor were measured by teams of EPFL/PSI, CEA and SCK•CEN research institutes using the Rossi-α and Power Spectral ...

American Nuclear Society2018

Anthropogenic- and natural sources of dust in peatland during the Anthropocene

Alexandre Buttler, Mariusz Lamentowicz, Vincent Eric Jules Jassey

As human impact have been increasing strongly over the last decades, it is crucial to distinguish human-induced dust sources from natural ones in order to define the boundary of a newly proposed epoch -the Anthropocene. Here, we track anthropogenic signatu ...

Nature Research2016

Sampling-Based Nuclear Data Uncertainty Quantification for Continuous Energy Monte Carlo Codes

Ting Zhu

The goal of the present PhD research is to establish a methodology of nuclear data uncertainty quantification (NDUQ) for MCNPX, the continuous-energy Monte-Carlo (M-C) code. The high fidelity (continuous-energy treatment and flexible geometry modelling) of ...

EPFL2015

Nitranilic acid hexahydrate, a novel benchmark system of the Zundel cation in an intrinsically asymmetric environment: spectroscopic features and hydrogen bond dynamics characterised by experimental and theoretical methods

Nitranilic acid (2,5-dihydroxy-3,6-dinitro-2,5-cyclohexadiene-1,4-dione) as a strong dibasic acid in acidic aqueous media creates the Zundel cation, H5O2+. The structural unit in a crystal comprises (H5O2)(2)(+)(2,5-dihydroxy-3,6-dinitro-1,4-benzoquinonate ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2014

Improving T2 -weighted imaging at high field through the use of kT -points

Rolf Gruetter, Florent Eggenschwiler, José Pedro Rebelo Ferreira Marques, Kieran O'Brien

PURPOSE: At high magnetic field strengths (B0 >/= 3 T), the shorter radiofrequency wavelength produces an inhomogeneous distribution of the transmit magnetic field. This can lead to variable contrast across the brain which is particularly pronounced in T2 ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

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Maria Elena Stramaglia

Arnout Lodewijk M Beckers

Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante

Federico Leo Redi

Michel De Cian

Sebastian Schulte

Veronica Sølund Kirsebom

Aravindhan Venkateswaran

This article reports the first measurement of prompt chi(c1) and chi(c2) charmonium production in nuclear collisions at Large Hadron Collider energies. The cross-section ratio sigma(chi(c2))/sigma(chi(c1)) is measured in pPb collisions at root s(NN) = 8.16 ...

2021

IOP Publishing Ltd

Dalziel Joseph Wilson

Justin Robert Young

Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin

Federico Nespoli

Alexis Gérald Page

João Saraiva Esteves Pacheco de Almeida

Stefano Mattei

Tao Xu

Luca Carraro

Hamish William Patten

Janir Nuno Ramos Antunes Da Cruz

Jose Vicente Sanchez Mut

Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia

Daniel Molina Romero

Nicola Vianello

Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo

Samuel Lanthaler

Liang Yao

Andrea Salmi

Joao André Gomes de Sá e Sousa

Arnout Lodewijk M Beckers

Thomas Willem Jan de Geus

Luis David Figueiredo Mascarenhas Moreira Pedrosa

Riccardo Vannucci

Semin Kwak

Candice Megan T Young

Paulo Giovane Paschoali Pereira Puglia

Raffaele Tito D'Agnolo

Inconel-600 blocks and stainless steel covers for quartz microbalance crystals from remote corners in the JET-ILW divertor were studied with time-of-flight elastic recoil detection analysis and nuclear reaction analysis to obtain information about the area ...

2019