Applications of Integral Benchmark Data

Palmiotti, G.; Briggs, J. Blair; Kugo, Teruhiko; Trumble, E.F.; Kahler, Albert C.; Lancaster, D.

doi:10.13182/nse14-33

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“…This paper provides an overview of many of the best practices employed by the ICSBEP and the IRPhEP, as example benchmark programs requiring rigorous quality control practices and extensive peer-review sustaining modern and future validation practices. The expertise, practices, methodologies, and application to support and sustain integral benchmark data [6] initiated via the ICS-BEP and IRPhEP can be applied towards other areas for modernized computational validation. Ongoing activities at the OECD NEA include planned development of a benchmark handbooks supporting SINBAD (Shielding Integral Benchmark Archive and Database) experiment data, [7] the Spent Fuel Composition (SFCOMPO) database, [8]…”

Section: International Benchmark Legacymentioning

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Current overview of ICSBEP and IRPhEP benchmark evaluation practices

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2020

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Two projects sanctioned by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) have over two decades of experience developing established and comprehensive data sets in handbooks supporting criticality safety and reactor physics. The International Criticality Safety Benchmark Evaluation Project (ICSBEP) and the International Reactor Physics Experiment Evaluation Project (IRPhEP) serve as examples of quality and excellence in preserving our experimental data heritage and establishing integral benchmark standards upon which current and future modeling, validation, and safety efforts can be supported. Evaluation practices have evolved with each year of these projects to include additional benchmark experiment data, establish more comprehensive techniques for evaluation of uncertainties and biases, and encourage established high-quality peer-review efforts. This paper will summarize the current format of the handbooks, best-practices for a comprehensive benchmark evaluation, recent activities and protocol within these projects, and a look into future identified needs and activities.

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Section: International Benchmark Legacymentioning

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Current overview of ICSBEP and IRPhEP benchmark evaluation practices

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Ivanova

2020

EPJ Web Conf.

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“…What began as an emblematic effort to bolster best practices in the 1990s for nuclear criticality safety validation has evolved into the backbone testing suite for contemporary neutronics methodologies, simulation, and nuclear data (Palmiotti, et al, 2014). The International Criticality Safety Benchmark Evaluation Project (ICSBEP) (Briggs, et al, 2003), a sanctioned program under the auspices of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), has been a highly successful and productive collaboration, now encompassing over 5,000 evaluated experimental benchmarks trusted and relied upon throughout the international nuclear communities.…”

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“…Furthermore, the IRPhEP and ICSBEP activities have helped pass knowledge from those involved in these legacy experiments to future generations and have influenced the development of future experimental programs." (Palmiotti, et al, 2014) Although benchmarks represent a cost investment, they very nearly always cost significantly less than the costs associated with construction and performance of the actual experiments themselves. The benchmarking process not just ensures that all data are collated, but more importantly, the quality of the experimental data are evaluated and preserved.…”

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Intrinsic value of the international benchmark projects, ICSBEP and IRPhEP, for advanced reactor development

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Front. Energy Res.

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The International Criticality Safety Benchmark Evaluation Project, a sanctioned program under the auspices of the Nuclear Energy Agency of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, has been a highly successful and productive collaboration, now encompassing over 5,000 evaluated experimental benchmarks trusted and relied upon throughout the international nuclear communities. The success of this project led to the development of the International Reactor Physics Experiment Evaluation Project, which is dedicated to the evaluation of benchmark experiment data to sustain current and future reactor physics validation needs. These exemplary programs, and their widely utilized handbooks, serve as gold standards to which other databases strive to emulate. The purpose of the two projects is to preserve modern and legacy experimental data and evaluate it in a standardized handbook format to provide quality benchmarks to support modern and future criticality safety and reactor physics validation. These two projects have often served as the mechanism through which historic and modern neutronics experiments are evaluated and shared across international borders, to best provide unique, high-quality peer-reviewed, and often otherwise unavailable, benchmark data. The contents of these handbooks are utilized not only in validating criticality safety, reactor physics, and advanced reactor calculations, but are used to validate neutronics calculations and nuclear data for most other nuclear applications. This manuscript discusses both international programs and available content to enable advanced reactor design validation.

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“…Users of these handbooks are found throughout the nuclear data, reactor physics, criticality safety, and mathetmatics/computation communities. The contents of these handbooks support validation of analytical methodologies utilized in reactor physics, fuel cycle characterization, nuclear facility safety analysis and design, advanced modelling and simulation, training, education, and nuclear data [4].…”

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Contributions to integral nuclear data in ICSBEP and IRPhEP since ND2016

2020

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The contributions to the International Criticality Safety Benchmark Evaluation Project (ICSBEP) and the International Reactor Physics Experiment Evaluation Project (IRPhEP) was last presented to the international nuclear data community at ND2016. Since ND2016, integral benchmark data that are available for nuclear data testing has continued to increase. The 2018 edition of the International Handbook of Evaluated Criti-cality Safety Benchmark Experiments (ICSBEP Handbook) now contains 574 evaluations with benchmark specifications for 4,916 critical, near-critical, or subcritical configurations, 45 criticality alarm placement/shielding configuration with multiple dose points apiece, and 215 configurations that have been categorized as fundamental physics measurements that are relevant to criticality safety applications. The 2018 edition of the International Handbook of Evaluated Reactor Physics Benchmark Experiments (IRPhEP Handbook) contains data from 159 different experimental series that were performed at 54 different nuclear facilities. Currently 156 of the 159 evaluations are published as approved benchmarks with the remaining three evaluations published as drafts. Measurements found in the IRPhEP Handbook include criticality, buckling and extrapolation length, spectral characteristics, reactivity effects, reactivity coefficients, kinetics, reaction-rate distributions, power distributions, isotopic compositions, and/or other miscellaneous types of measurements for various types of reactor systems. Additional benchmark evaluations will be included in the 2019 editions of these handbooks. These handbooks continue to represent the standard for neutronics benchmark experiment evaluation.

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Applications of Integral Benchmark Data

Cited by 14 publications

References 16 publications

Current overview of ICSBEP and IRPhEP benchmark evaluation practices

Current overview of ICSBEP and IRPhEP benchmark evaluation practices

Intrinsic value of the international benchmark projects, ICSBEP and IRPhEP, for advanced reactor development

Contributions to integral nuclear data in ICSBEP and IRPhEP since ND2016

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