Intrinsic value of the international benchmark projects, ICSBEP and IRPhEP, for advanced reactor development
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 expe...
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| author | John D. Bess Tatiana Ivanova Ian Hill Julie-Fiona Martin J. Blair Briggs Lori Scott Mark D. DeHart Catherine Percher B. J. Marshall Patrick Blaise |
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-a992604667044e13805434498a1728d92023-02-28T07:48:30ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Energy Research2296-598X2023-02-011110.3389/fenrg.2023.10857881085788Intrinsic value of the international benchmark projects, ICSBEP and IRPhEP, for advanced reactor developmentJohn D. Bess0Tatiana Ivanova1Ian Hill2Julie-Fiona Martin3J. Blair Briggs4Lori Scott5Mark D. DeHart6Catherine Percher7B. J. Marshall8Patrick Blaise9JFoster & Associates, LLC, Idaho Falls, ID, United StatesOrganisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Nuclear Energy Agency, Paris, FranceOrganisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Nuclear Energy Agency, Paris, FranceOrganisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Nuclear Energy Agency, Paris, FranceIdaho National Laboratory, Nuclear Science and Technology, Idaho Falls, ID, United StatesIdaho National Laboratory, Nuclear Science and Technology, Idaho Falls, ID, United StatesIdaho National Laboratory, Nuclear Science and Technology, Idaho Falls, ID, United StatesLawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Nuclear Criticality Safety Division, Livermore, CA, United StatesOak Ridge National Laboratory, Nuclear Energy and Fuel Cycle Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United StatesCommissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, Scientific Division of Energies, Paris, FranceThe 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.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenrg.2023.1085788/fulladvanced reactorsbenchmarkcriticality safetyexperimenthandbooknuclear data |
| spellingShingle | John D. Bess Tatiana Ivanova Ian Hill Julie-Fiona Martin J. Blair Briggs Lori Scott Mark D. DeHart Catherine Percher B. J. Marshall Patrick Blaise Intrinsic value of the international benchmark projects, ICSBEP and IRPhEP, for advanced reactor development Frontiers in Energy Research advanced reactors benchmark criticality safety experiment handbook nuclear data |
| title | Intrinsic value of the international benchmark projects, ICSBEP and IRPhEP, for advanced reactor development |
| title_full | Intrinsic value of the international benchmark projects, ICSBEP and IRPhEP, for advanced reactor development |
| title_fullStr | Intrinsic value of the international benchmark projects, ICSBEP and IRPhEP, for advanced reactor development |
| title_full_unstemmed | Intrinsic value of the international benchmark projects, ICSBEP and IRPhEP, for advanced reactor development |
| title_short | Intrinsic value of the international benchmark projects, ICSBEP and IRPhEP, for advanced reactor development |
| title_sort | intrinsic value of the international benchmark projects icsbep and irphep for advanced reactor development |
| topic | advanced reactors benchmark criticality safety experiment handbook nuclear data |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenrg.2023.1085788/full |
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