Neutronic Analyses of the Trade Demonstration Facility

Monte Carlo modeling and analyses of YALINA- booster subcritical assembly Part II : pulsed neutron source.

“…The facility has been driven by a Deuterium-Deuterium or Deuterium-Tritium pulsed neutron source and the (n,p) reaction rate has been experimentally measured by a 3 He detector. The MCNP calculation has utilized the weight window and delayed neutron biasing variance reduction techniques since the detector volume is small compared to the assembly volume.…”

“…[1][2][3] Consequently, studies and experiments are performed to define their kinetics parameters. The MUSE 4-9 and YALINA 10 are example for such experiments.…”

Deterministic and Monte Carlo modeling and analyses of YALINA-THERMAL subcritical assembly.

“…[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] These transmuters are referred to as Accelerators Driven Systems (ADS). Research programs for partitioning and transmuting nuclear waste by ADS are under development in Japan, [8][9][10][11] China, 12 Europe, [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31] and Russia. [32][33][34] In Europe, the MUSE program was carried out at the MASURCA facility in Cadarache, France.…”

“…Another set of experiments has been carried out within the TRIGA Accelerator Driven Experiment (TRADE) program. [20][21][22][23][24][25] Another related program is the RACE-T. 26 The current European research and development activity aims at the construction of a multipurpose prototype ADS for nuclear waste transmutation. Two major projects are under consideration: the PDS-ADS [27][28] and the MYRRHA/XT-ADS.…”

Monte Carlo modeling and analyses of YALINA-booster subcritical assembly part 1: analytical models and main neutronics parameters.

“…Within this concept, the incineration of LWRs waste takes advantage of the low capture to fission ratio of transuranic isotopes in the fast energy spectrum. The ADS utilization for energy production has been suggested by Rubbia et al 2 The ADS experimental research has been performed with small research facilities around the world such as MASURCA, 3 TRADE, 4 and YALINA. 5 The present study is focused on characterizing the YALINABooster facility as defined in the IAEA benchmark specifications.…”