Particle accelerators have evolved over the last 50 years from simple devices to powerful machines, and will continued to have an important impact on research, technology and lifestyle. Today, they c...
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1 January 1998
Over the last 50 years particle accelerators have evolved from simple devices to powerful machines, and will continue to have an important impact on research, technology and lifestyle. Today, they co...
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1 January 1999
Over the last 50 years particle accelerators have evolved from simple devices to powerful machines, and will continue to have an important impact on research, technology and lifestyle. Today, they co...
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30 May 2001
Particle accelerators are used today for an increasing range of scientific and technological applications. They are very powerful tools for investigating the origin and structure of matter, and for i...
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22 July 2004
Particle accelerators are used today for an increasing range of scientific and technological applications. They are very powerful tools to investigate the origin and structure of matter, and to impro...
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13 May 2005
Particle accelerators have evolved over the last decades from simple devices to powerful machines, and are having an increasingly important impact on research, technology and daily life. Today they c...
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15 December 2010
Particle accelerators have evolved over the last decades from simple devices to powerful machines, and are having an increasingly important impact on research, technology and daily life. Today they h...
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8 October 2013
Hydrogen has the potential to play an important role as a sustainable and environmentally acceptable source of energy in the 21st century. Present methods for producing hydrogen are mainly based on t...
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28 April 2004
Hydrogen has the potential to play an important role as a sustainable and environmentally acceptable energy carrier in the 21st century. Since natural sources of pure hydrogen are extremely limited, ...
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13 July 2006
Hydrogen has the potential to play an important role as a sustainable and environmentally acceptable energy source in the 21st century. However, hydrogen does not exist as a gas on earth and thus has...
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5 June 2001
One of the important issues regarding deterministic transport methods for whole core calculations is that homogenised techniques can introduce errors into results. On the other hand, with modern comp...
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8 August 2003
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10 November 2016
Refined models for best-estimate calculations based on good-quality experimental data can improve the understanding of phenomena and the quantification of margins for operating nuclear power reactors...
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7 July 2006
NEA/NSC/DOC(2009)8
Saratoga Springs, New York, 6 May 2009 - Meeting summary
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11 May 2009
NEA/NSC/DOC(2007)1/1
Particle transport calculations in three-dimensional configurations are becoming prevalent in nuclear applications. This places a premium on determining the accuracy of numerical solutions to practic...
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23 February 2007
Since the beginning of benchmark activities, two benchmark workshops took place. The first was held in Madrid, Spain (June 1998), and the second in Garching near Munich, Germany (March 1999). It was ...
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1 January 1999
The United States and the Russian Federation have each agreed to dispose of 34 tonnes of weapons-grade plutonium that are beyond their defence needs. One effective way to dispose of this plutonium is...
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20 January 2006
NEA/NSC/DOC(2000)4
Several NEA Nuclear Science Committee (NSC) activities are concerned with the validation of computation methods and codes as applied to nuclear technology. One of the challenges has been and continue...
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17 March 2000
Average fuel burn-up in light water reactors (LWRs) has steadily increased with time as technological advances have been made. The practical limit is currently in the region of 50 GWd/t. The main dri...
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22 August 2006
NEA/NEACRP/L(1991)333
A summary of the Sixth Symposium on Reactor Noise (SMORN VI), Gatlinburg, United States, 19-24 May 1991
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1 January 1991
NEA/NSC/DOC(1996)25
In this benchmark exercise the goal is to test the current state-of-the-art two-dimensional methods of calculating neutron flux to reactor components against the measured data of the VENUS-1 critical...
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1 January 1996
NEA/NSC/DOC(1996)5
The OECD/NEA Nuclear Science Committee Task Force on Computing Radiation Dose and Modelling of Radiation-induced Degradation of Reactor Components was set up in November 1995 in response to a request...
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1 January 1996
It is essential to calculate the structural integrity of reactor components with a high degree of accuracy in order to make correct decisions regarding plant lifetime at the design stage, safety marg...
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11 April 2006
The OECD/NEA Task Force on Computing Radiation Dose and Modelling of Radiation-Induced Degradation of Reactor Components (TFRDD) launched two international blind intercomparison exercises to examine ...
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1 January 2000
Attitudes towards plutonium management vary from country to country and from utility to utility: some regard plutonium as a liability and others as a valuable source of energy.
The purpose of this st...
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1 November 1995
In the field of coupled neutronics/thermal-hydraulics computation there is a need to enhance scientific knowledge in order to develop advanced modelling techniques for new nuclear technologies and co...
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7 July 2005
In the field of coupled neutronics/thermal-hydraulics computation there is a need to enhance scientific knowledge in order to develop advanced modelling techniques for new nuclear technologies and co...
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20 July 2001
In the field of coupled neutronics/thermal-hydraulics computation there is a need to enhance scientific knowledge in order to develop advanced modelling techniques for new nuclear technologies and co...
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8 October 2010
An important issue regarding deterministic transport methods for whole core calculations is that homogenised techniques can introduce errors into results. In addition, with modern computational abili...
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16 September 2005
In order to validate the calculations methods and nuclear data used for the prediction of power in MOX-fuelled systems, the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) has examined a series of theoretical physi...
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9 February 2004
NEA/NSC/DOC(2013)9
Workshop Proceedings, 10-12 December 2012
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25 February 2020
NEA/NSC/WPNCS/DOC(2011)5
Spent Nuclear Fuel Assay Data for Isotopic Validation - State-of-the-art Report
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6 June 2011
NEA News is the professional journal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nucl...
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29 June 2004
As part of a broader spectrum of collaborative activities underpinning nuclear materials research, the Nuclear Energy Agency is supporting worldwide efforts towards the development of advanced materi...
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28 September 2018
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4 January 2012
NEA/NSC/WPFC/DOC(2012)15
Spent Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Flowsheet
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12 June 2012
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12 June 2012
NEA/NSC/WPFC/DOC(2012)17
LACANES – Phase I: Isothermal forced convection case
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12 June 2012
NEA/NSC/DOC(2015)9
Primary Radiation Damage in Materials – Review of Current Understanding and Proposed New Standard Displacement Damage Model to Incorporate in Cascade Defect Production Efficiency and Mixing Effects
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26 February 2015
NEA/NSC/R(2015)5
State-of-the-Art Report on Multi-scale Modelling of Nuclear Fuels
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3 September 2015
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2 December 2016
NEA/NSC/R(2018)1
LACANES – Phase II: Natural Convection
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4 April 2018
Preservation of know-how in the nuclear field is promoted through the activities of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency Data Bank. One area of importance concerns methods for solving radiation transport p...
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1 September 2008
The implementation of advanced nuclear systems requires that new technologies associated with the back end of the fuel cycle are developed. The separation of minor actinides from other fuel component...
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19 March 2018
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12 December 2018
NEA/NSC/DOC(1996)4
Criticality Calculations of BWR Spent Fuel in Storage and Transportation, Yoshitaka Naito, Hiroshi Okuno and Yoshihara Ando (JAERI)
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1 January 1996
NEA/NSC/DOC(2003)3
Reactivity Prediction Calculations for Infinite Arrays of PWR Mox Fuel Pincells
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17 April 2003
NEA/NSC/DOC(2003)4
Results and Analysis of MOX Fuels Depletion Calculations
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17 April 2003
NEA/NSC/R(2016)2
Numerical benchmark for the analysis of small-sample reactivity experiments
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9 June 2016
NEA/NSC/DOC(1993)22
JAERI-M-94-003 Makoto TAKANO (JAERI), January 1994
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1 January 1993