SCALE 6: comprehensive nuclear safety analysis code system

SM Bowman - Nuclear technology, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Version 6 of the Standardized Computer Analyses for Licensing Evaluation
(SCALE) computer software system developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, released …

Sensitivity/uncertainty comparison and similarity analysis between TMSR-LF1 and MSR models

Y Liu, R Yan, Y Zou, S Yu, B Zhou, X Kang, J Hu… - Progress in Nuclear …, 2020 - Elsevier
TMSR-LF1 (Thorium-based Molten Salt Reactor-Liquid Fuel) is the reactor chosen to be
developed in the “Thorium molten salt reactor nuclear energy system” project of the Strategic …

Review of Early 21st-Century Monte Carlo Perturbation and Sensitivity Techniques for k-Eigenvalue Radiation Transport Calculations

BC Kiedrowski - Nuclear Science and Engineering, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Since the 1960s, Monte Carlo methods have been used to compute the effect of
perturbations on system responses and for computing sensitivity coefficients. This review …

Sensitivity and uncertainty analysis capabilities and data in SCALE

BT Rearden, ML Williams, MA Jessee… - Nuclear …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
In SCALE 6, the T ools for S ensitivity and UN certainty A nalysis M ethodology I
mplementation (TSUNAMI) modules calculate the sensitivity of keff or reactivity differences to …

Whisper: Sensitivity/uncertainty-based computational methods and software for determining baseline upper subcritical limits

BC Kiedrowski, FB Brown, JL Conlin… - Nuclear Science and …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Nuclear criticality safety analysis using computational methods such as a Monte Carlo
method must establish, for a defined area of applicability, an upper subcritical limit (USL) …

Effect of temperature, suction head and flow velocity on cavitation in a Francis turbine of small hydro power plant

PP Gohil, RP Saini - Energy, 2015 - Elsevier
Erosion due to cavitation in hydro turbines is one of the reasons for component failure that
costs a lot to the hydro power plants. Inception and development of cavitation depend upon …

MOCABA: A general Monte Carlo–Bayes procedure for improved predictions of integral functions of nuclear data

A Hoefer, O Buss, M Hennebach, M Schmid… - Annals of Nuclear …, 2015 - Elsevier
MOCABA is a combination of Monte Carlo sampling and Bayesian updating algorithms for
the prediction of integral functions of nuclear data, such as reactor power distributions or …

Modeling of the molten salt reactor experiment with SCALE

F Bostelmann, SE Skutnik, ED Walker, G Ilas… - Nuclear …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
A SCALE model was developed for the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE) benchmark
that was recently added to the International Handbook of Evaluated Reactor Physics …

Perturbation theory eigenvalue sensitivity analysis with Monte Carlo techniques

BT Rearden - Nuclear science and engineering, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
Methodologies to calculate adjoint-based first-order-linear perturbation theory sensitivity
coefficients with multigroup Monte Carlo methods are developed, implemented, and tested …

SCALE capabilities for high temperature gas-cooled reactor analysis

F Bostelmann, C Celik, ML Williams, RJ Ellis… - Annals of Nuclear …, 2020 - Elsevier
The SCALE code system's ability to address stochastic distributions of fuel particles within a
graphite matrix has been revisited in both multigroup (MG) features and continuous-energy …