Criticality safety integral experiments

Ongoing

Criticality is the state of a nuclear reactor when there is a self-sustaining chain reaction of fissionable material. Criticality experiments are controlled tests using fissile materials, like plutonium or enriched uranium, brought to the critical point for analysis and benchmarking. These experiments allow criticality safety analysts to use the data to validate calculation tools and cross-section libraries.

Related topics

Nuclear science

Criticality safety

Criticality safety analytical methods

Burn-up credit and nuclear criticality safety

Criticality excursion

Used fuel criticality

Infographics

WPNCS Subgroup 5 infographic

WPNCS Subgroup 7 infographic

Publications and reports

results

SEE ALL IN THIS CATEGORY

          
        Publications and Reports
      
	        Most recent

Reference Values for Nuclear Criticality Safety + CD-ROM

29 December 2006

English Nuclear science Nuclear science

          
        Publications and Reports
      
	        Most recent

The Need for Integral Critical Experiments with Low-moderated MOX Fuels

19 July 2004

English Nuclear science Proceedings

Contact

WPNCS Secretariat

Activities

results

International Criticality Safety Benchmark Evaluation Project (ICSBEP)

The primary purpose of the International Criticality Safety Benchmark Evaluation Project (ICSBEP) is to compile critical and subcritical benchmark experiment data into a standardised format that allows criticality safety analysts to easily use the data to validate calculation tools and cross-section libraries.

See

Nuclear Science Committee (NSC)

The NEA nuclear science programme is developed and executed by the Nuclear Science Committee (NSC), comprising high-level scientific experts from all NEA member countries.

Working Party on Nuclear Criticality Safety (WPNCS)

The Working Party on Nuclear Criticality Safety (WPNCS) deals with technical and scientific issues relevant to criticality safety. Specific areas of interest include (but are not limited to) investigations of static and transient configurations encountered in the nuclear fuel cycle. These include fuel fabrication, transport and storage.

See

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