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Comparison of reduced model predictions for divertor detachment onset and reattachment timescales in ASDEX Upgrade and JET experiments

Building on prior analysis of ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) experiments (Henderson et al 2023 Nucl. Fusion 63 086024), this study compares simple analytical formula predictions for divertor detachment onset and reattachment timescales in JET experiments. Detachment ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

Experimental study and interpretative modelling of the Power Exhaust in Configurations with Multiple X-Points in TCV

Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno

Nuclear fusion presents a promising clean energy source to mitigate future energy crises, with magnetic confinement fusion well-positioned to provide a baseload scenario to power future reactors. The unmitigated power exhaust of such reactors threatens its ...

EPFL2024

Gamma-ray Spectroscopy in Low-Power Nuclear Research Reactors

Andreas Pautz, Vincent Pierre Lamirand, Oskari Ville Pakari

Gamma-ray spectroscopy is an effective technique for radioactive material characterization, routine inventory verification, nuclear safeguards, health physics, and source search scenarios. Gamma-ray spectrometers typically cannot be operated in the immedia ...

MDPI2024

Microlens-enhanced silicon photomultiplier arrays for LHCb SciFi Tracker Upgrade Ib

Olivier Schneider, Guido Haefeli, Ettore Zaffaroni, Carina Trippl

A large-scale Scintillating Fibre Tracker has been developed and constructed for the current LHCb Upgrade 1. The high radiation by fast neutrons reduces the light yield of the detector in the course of LHC Run 3, and is challenging the tracker's hit detect ...

ELSEVIER2022

A Planner-Trader Decomposition for Multi-Market Hydro Scheduling

Daniel Kuhn, Napat Rujeerapaiboon, Kilian Schindler, Wolfram Wiesemann

Peak/off-peak spreads on European electricity forward and spot markets are eroding due to the ongoing nuclear phaseout and the steady growth in photovoltaic capacity. The reduced profitability of peak/off- peak arbitrage forces hydropower producers to reco ...

2024

The complex winds of the Alps: an unseen asset for the energy transition

Jérôme François Sylvain Dujardin

Wind energy has played a major role in the development of our society since 5000 BC when the first sail boats traveled the Nile River. Wind technology continued to advance with the invention of wind-powered pumps and mills in China and the Middle East as e ...

EPFL2021

Review of kinetic modulation experiments in low power nuclear reactors

Vincent Pierre Lamirand

The safety improvement of nuclear reactors requires continuous efforts in understanding the fundamental physical quantities related to the fission process. In neutronic models, the reactor dynamics is covered by the kinetic parameters to characterize the t ...

2020

Key Performance Indicators for Decision Making in Building Energy Systems

François Maréchal, Luc Girardin, Luise Middelhauve, Alessio Santecchia

Policy makers and energy operator have the responsibility to select indicators for their mission to lead the renewable energy transition ensuring energy independence and security of supply in the context of decarbonisation of the energy mix and and/or nucl ...

2020

Policy analysis during socio-technical energy transitions: three essays on the Swiss electricity sector

Paul Adrianus Van Baal

Global energy systems are changing rapidly. This energy transition complicates the use of traditional policy analysis methods. However, proper policy analysis and design is essential in managing the transition. This thesis takes an interdisciplinary approa ...

EPFL2019

Analysis of plasma termination in the JET hybrid scenario

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Patrick Blanchard, Yves Martin, Pierre-Thomas Paul Brun, Henri Weisen, Sun Hee Kim, Alessandro Pau, Mikhail Maslov, Cristian Sommariva, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Richard Pitts, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Robin Humphry-Baker, Yann Camenen, Jan Horacek, José Pedro Rebelo Ferreira Marques, Javier García Hernández, Ana Francisca Leal Silva Soares, Marco Wischmeier, Daniel Scott Alessi, Julio Rodriguez, Nicola Vianello, Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta, Pedro Camilo de Oliveira e Silva, Federico Nespoli, Alberto Hernando de Castro, Yao Zhou, Vlad Trifa, David Pfefferlé, Rebecca Hill, Davide Galassi, Partha Dutta, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Liang Yao, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, , , ,

Not if, but when? Simulating the impact of timing the nuclear phase-out in Switzerland

Matthias Finger, Reinier Verhoog, Paul Adrianus Van Baal

Swiss electricity companies are faced with uncertainty with regards to the future operation of nuclear power plants in the country. After Fukushima in 2011, the government decided on a gradual phase-out, but only provided a tentative planning. Hence, no ne ...

2017

Tapping hidden hydropower potential in Swiss Alpine catchments in the context of the planned nuclear power phase out

Anton Schleiss, Pedro Filipe De Almeida Manso, Bettina Schaefli, Ana Clara Pereira Barbosa Santos

In its Energy Strategy 2050, Switzerland is revising its energy perspectives with a strong focus on renewable sources of energy and in particular hydropower. In this context, the Swiss Government funded a number of competence centers for energy research (S ...

2017

The information platform energyscope.ch on the energy transition scenarios

Daniel Favrat, François Maréchal, Victor Codina Gironès, François Richard Vuille

Switzerland like many countries plans to undertake an energy transition and the government proposes different paths for 2035 and 2050 to achieve it. However the authors of this paper felt the need for a better information of the public on the energy matter ...

2016

Engineering & Performance of DuoTurbo: Microturbine with Counter-Rotating Runners

François Avellan, Vlad Hasmatuchi, Loïc Andolfatto, Daniel Biner

Considering the nuclear phase-out strategy of several European countries and the future tendency to promote renewable energies, the exploitation of small hydropower sites (

International Association For Hydraulic Research2016

Impact of Insurance on Earthquake Risk Territories in Japan

Rémy Zgraggen

The subject of the present PhD thesis is the qualitative, interdisciplinary analysis of the impact of earthquake insurance on earthquake risk territories in Japan. On the one hand, the Japanese Earthquake Insurance System (JEI) will be analyzed; on the oth ...

EPFL2015

Experimental Validation of 3-D Reconstructed Pin Power Distributions in Full-Scale BWR Fuel Assemblies with Partial-Length Rods

Rakesh Chawla, Flavio Dante Giust

Total fission rate measurements have been performed on full-size boiling water reactor fuel assemblies of type SVEA-96 Optima2 in the framework of phase III of the light water reactor (LWR)PROTEUS experimental program at Paul Scherrer Institute. This paper ...

Amer Nuclear Soc2013

A novel design approach for a neutron measurement station for burnt fuel

Rakesh Chawla, Mathieu Hursin

The design and characterization of a passive neutron measurement station for highly burnt fuel has been undertaken at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI). The measurement station aims at the determination of the total neutron emission rate of full-length lig ...

Elsevier2012

Appraisal of Core Analysis Methods against Zero-Power Experiments on Full-Scale BWR Fuel Assemblies

Flavio Dante Giust

The present doctoral research aims at the appraisal of nodal core simulators used for the calculation of commercial boiling water reactor (BWR) cores, against measurements carried out at the Paul Scherrer Institute under the LWR-PROTEUS experimental progra ...

EPFL2012

Experimental Comparisons of 3D Reconstructed Pin-Power Distributions in Full-Scale BWR Fuel Assemblies

Rakesh Chawla, Flavio Dante Giust

In this paper, reconstructed local fission rates obtained with the two-group nodal diffusion program PRESTO-2, used at the Leibstadt Nuclear Power Plant (KKL) in Switzerland, are compared with experimental results and MCNPX calculations. The experimental f ...

2011

Experimental validation of radial reconstructed pin-power distributions in full-scale BWR fuel assemblies with and without control blade

Rakesh Chawla, Flavio Dante Giust

Total fission rate measurements have been performed on full-size BWR fuel assemblies of type SVEA-96+ in the zero power reactor PROTEUS at the Paul Scherrer Institute. This paper presents comparisons of reconstructed 2D pin fission rates from nodal diffusi ...

Elsevier2010