The development of GEN-IV fast reactor technology at an industrial scale will need
significant improvement of nuclear data and related uncertainties to cope with awaited target …

The comprehension of severe criticality accident is a key issue in Gen‐IV neutronics and
safety. Within the future zero‐power experimental physics reactor (ZEPHYR), to be built in …

CEA is currently working on a new ZPR called ZEPHYR (Zero power Experimental PHYsics
Reactor), to be built on the Cadarache Center in the next decade. Its awaited experimental …

Studies related to severe core accidents constitute a crucial element in the safety design of
Gen‐IV systems. A new experimental program, related to severe core accidents studies, is …

The experimental programs performed in EOLE and MINERVE ZPRs for the last 40 years
have been very fruitful for the understanding of LWR physical phenomena, and have …

Pile oscillator techniques are powerful methods to measure small reactivity worth of isotopes
of interest for nuclear data improvement. This kind of experiment has long been …

Zero Power Reactors bring significant results in experimental validation of neutronics
calculation tools and knowledge of nuclear data through integral experiments. In order to …

The progression of severe core accident (SCA) in a fast breeder reactor (FBR) is significantly
influenced by the core physics, since the core is not loaded in its most reactive configuration …

CABRI is a research reactor, funded by the French Nuclear Safety and Radioprotection
institute (IRSN) and operated by CEA that produces typical Reactivity Initiated Accidents …

The presented work details the SNEAK-12B experimental program, which is under
reevaluation in a joint collaboration of CEA/KIT/Ben-Gurion University. In this work a …