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NEA-1486 ICSBEP2021-HANDBOOK.

ICSBEP2021-HANDBOOK, International Criticality Safety Benchmark Experiment Handbook

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1. NAME

ICSBEP2021-HANDBOOK.

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2. COMPUTERS

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Program name Package id Status Status date
ICSBEP2021-HANDBOOK NEA-1486/19 Arrived 10-NOV-2022

Machines used:

Package ID Orig. computer Test computer
NEA-1486/19 Many Computers
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3. DESCRIPTION

The ICSBEP Handbook is available on DVD and Online. To obtain the access to either the DVD or the Online version, you must submit your request using the following link: https://www.oecd-nea.org/jcms/pl_20291/international-criticality-safety-benchmark-evaluation-project-icsbep-handbook

 

The Criticality Safety Benchmark Evaluation Project (CSBEP) was initiated in 1992 by the United States Department of Energy. The project quickly became an international effort as scientists from other interested countries became involved. The International Criticality Safety Benchmark Evaluation Project (ICSBEP) became an official activity of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) in 1995.

This handbook contains criticality safety benchmark specifications that have been derived from experiments performed at critical facilities around the world. The benchmark specifications are intended for use by criticality safety engineers to validate calculation techniques used to establish minimum subcritical margins for operations with fissile material and to determine criticality alarm requirements and placement. Many of the specifications are also useful for nuclear data testing. Example calculations are presented; however, these do not constitute a validation of the codes or cross-section data.

The evaluated criticality safety benchmark data in the 2020 edition are presented in nine volumes. These volumes span over 80 000 pages and contain 587 evaluations with benchmark specifications for 5121 critical, near-critical or subcritical configurations, 45 criticality alarm placement/shielding configurations with multiple dose points for each, and 237 configurations which have been categorised as fundamental physics measurements that are relevant to criticality safety applications.

 

New to the handbook are experiments from the Kilopower Reactor Using Stirling Technology (KRUSTY) – shown on the front cover - and Thermal/Epithermal eXperiments (TEX) programs performed at the National Critical Experiments Reserach Center (NCERC) in the United States; Highly Enriched Uraniums experiments with Lucite at NCERC; pitch variation experiments at Sandia National Laboratory in the United States; and structural material experiments at Valduc facility in France.

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4. METHODS

Experiments that are found unacceptable for use as criticality safety benchmark experiments are discussed in these evaluations; however, benchmark specifications are not derived for such experiments (in some cases, models are provided in an appendix). Approximately 838 experimental configurations are categorised as unacceptable for use as criticality safety benchmark experiments. Additional evaluations are in progress and will be added to this document periodically. The document is organised in a manner that allows easy inclusion of additional evaluations as they become available.

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9. STATUS
Package ID Status date Status
NEA-1486/19 10-NOV-2022 Arrived restricted
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10. REFERENCES
NEA-1486/19, included references:
- NEA Nuclear Science Committee:
International Handbook of Evaluated Criticality Safety Benchmark Experiments
(Edition 2021)
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12. PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE(S) USED
No specified programming language
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15. NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHORS

Catherine Percher

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Livermore CA 94550

USA

percher1 (at) llnl.gov

 

William J. Marshall

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Oak Ridge TN 37831-6170

USA

Marshallwj (at) ornl.gov

 

Tatiana Ivanova

Division of Nuclear Science and Education

46, quai Alphonse Le Gallo

92100 Boulogne-Billancourt

France

cps-icsbep (at) oecd-nea.org

 

This handbook was prepared by a technical review group that benefited from the input of experienced criticality safety personnel from various countries, which have included over the years Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, Czech Republic, France, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Poland, the Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. The handbook includes the project organisation and a list of participants by order in which countries joined the ICSBEP.

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16. MATERIAL AVAILABLE
NEA-1486/19
International Handbook of Evaluated Criticality Safety Benchmark Experiments
(Edition 2021)
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17. CATEGORIES
  • Y. Integral Experiments Data, Databases, Benchmarks

Keywords: benchmarks, criticality, experiment, safety.