The Serpent Monte Carlo code: Status, development and applications in 2013

J Leppänen, M Pusa, T Viitanen, V Valtavirta… - Annals of Nuclear …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Serpent Monte Carlo reactor physics burnup calculation code has been
developed at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland since 2004, and is currently used in …

Reduced-order modeling of neutron transport separated in energy by Proper Generalized Decomposition with applications to nuclear reactor physics

KA Dominesey, W Ji - Journal of Computational Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
In this article, we formulate and implement an a priori Reduced-Order Model (ROM) of
neutron transport separated in energy by Proper Generalized Decomposition (PGD) …

Small modular high temperature reactor optimisation part 2: Reactivity control for prismatic core high temperature small modular reactor, including fixed burnable …

S Atkinson, D Litskevich, B Merk - Progress in Nuclear Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
This article investigates a high temperature prismatic core small modular reactor concept
based on the U-Battery. To achieve a long operational time without reloading of the fuel, a …

Life cycle greenhouse gases emission analysis of hydrogen production from S–I thermochemical process coupled to a high temperature nuclear reactor

MR Giraldi, JL François, D Castro-Uriegas - International journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
A methodology for assessing the environmental impact of products and services is the life
cycle analysis (LCA); which is a versatile tool to define the inclusion process and the scope …

Extension of double heterogeneity treatment method for coated TRISO fuel particles

H Kim, S Choi, M Park, D Lee, HC Lee - Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper extends the methodology for treating the resonance self-shielding effect of
doubly heterogeneous (DH) tristructural-isotropic fuel particles to take the coating layers of …

HTTR 3 D Cross Section Generation with Serpent and MAMMOTH

VM Laboure, J Ortensi, A Hummel - 2018 - osti.gov
The High Temperature Test Reactor (HTTR) is a graphite moderated thermal reactor with a
nominal power output of 30 MWth. The purpose of this work is to prepare a set of neutron …

[PDF][PDF] Serpent progress report 2011

J Leppänen - VTT, Espoo, 2012 - serpent.vtt.fi
Research report Page 1 RESEARCH REPORT VTT-R-00300-14 Serpent Progress Report
2012 Authors: Jaakko Leppänen Confidentiality: Public Page 2 RESEARCH REPORT VTT-R-00300-14 …

Physics: A New Reactor Physics Analysis Toolkit

C Rabiti, Y Wang, G Palmiotti, H Hiruta, J Cogliati… - 2011 - osti.gov
In the last year INL has internally pursued the development of a new reactor analysis tool:
PHISICS. The software is built in a modular approach to simplify the independent …

Benchmark Analysis of the HTR-10 with the MAMMOTH Reactor Physics Application

J Ortensi, S Schunert, Y Wang, V Labouré, F Gleicher… - 2018 - osti.gov
This report documents a set of benchmarks used to validate the Serpent and MAMMOTH
neutron transport models of the HTR-10 reactor developed at Idaho National Laboratory …

[책][B] Extension of the Reactor Dynamics Code MGT-3D for Pebblebed and Blocktype High-Temperature-Reactors

D Shi - 2015 - juser.fz-juelich.de
The High Temperature Gas cooled Reactor (HTGR) is an improved, gas cooled nuclear
reactor. It was chosen as one of the candidates of generation IV nuclearplants [1]. The …