| Issue |
EPJ Nuclear Sci. Technol.
Volume 6, 2020
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|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 9 | |
| Number of page(s) | 8 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjn/2020004 | |
| Published online | 08 April 2020 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjn/2020004
Regular Article
Uncertainty propagation for the design study of the PETALE experimental programme in the CROCUS reactor
1
Laboratory for Reactor Physics and Systems behaviour (LRS), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
2
Laboratory for Reactor Physics and Thermal Hydraulics (LRT), Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
3
Nuclear Energy and Safety Research Division (NES), Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
* e-mail: laureau.axel@gmail.com
Received:
2
September
2019
Accepted:
16
January
2020
Published online: 8 April 2020
The PETALE experimental programme in the CROCUS reactor intends to provide integral measurements to constrain stainless steel nuclear data. This article presents the tools and the methodology developed to design and optimize the experiments, and its operating principle. Two acceleration techniques have been implemented in the Serpent2 code to perform a Total Monte Carlo uncertainty propagation using variance reduction and correlated sampling technique. Their application to the estimation of the expected reaction rates in dosimeters is also discussed, together with the estimation of the impact of the nuisance parameters of aluminium used in the experiment structures.
© A. Laureau et al., published by EDP Sciences, 2020
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