High-fidelity modeling of spent fuel assemblies for advanced nda instrument testings

Jianwei Hu, Ian C. Gauld, Vladimir Mozin, Stephen Tobin, Stefano Vaccaro, Martin Bengtsson, Anders Sjöland, Andrew Worrall

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Abstract

Testing of the advanced NDA instruments developed under the NGSI-SF project requires high-fidelity, well-characterized spent fuel assembly models to quantify the instrument performance. These assembly models have been generated using ORIGAMI, as described in this paper. The unique features of the ORIGAMI have been also demonstrated. Comparisons to one set of experimental data have also been discussed. More NDA instrument testing is planned at Clab in the near future, and the data continue to be used to benchmark the calculations.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Nuclear Nonproliferation Technology and Policy Conference
Subtitle of host publicationBridging the Gaps in Nuclear Nonproliferation, ANTPC 2016
PublisherAmerican Nuclear Society
ISBN (Electronic)9780894487316
StatePublished - 2016
Event2nd Topical Meeting of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Technology and Policy Conference: Bridging the Gaps in Nuclear Nonproliferation, ANTPC 2016 - Santa Fe, United States
Duration: Sep 25 2016Sep 30 2016

Publication series

NameAdvances in Nuclear Nonproliferation Technology and Policy Conference: Bridging the Gaps in Nuclear Nonproliferation, ANTPC 2016

Conference

Conference2nd Topical Meeting of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Technology and Policy Conference: Bridging the Gaps in Nuclear Nonproliferation, ANTPC 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySanta Fe
Period09/25/1609/30/16

Funding

This work was funded by the Next Generation Safeguards Initiative program (NGSI), the Office of Nonproliferation and Arms Control, and the National Nuclear Security Administration of Department of Energy. The authors acknowledge (1) the valued assistance of the operations team at the SKB’s Central Interim Storage This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC, under Contract No. DE-AC0500OR22725 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for the United States Government purposes. The Department of Energy will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan (http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan).

FundersFunder number
NGSI
Office of Nonproliferation and Arms Control
U.S. Department of Energy
National Nuclear Security Administration

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