High-Performance Monte Carlo Methods for SAFEty Demonstration- From Proof of Concept to realistic Safety Analysis and Industry-like Applications

Project Information

McSAFE

Grant agreement ID: 755097

DOI

10.3030/755097

Project closed

EC signature date 24 May 2017

Start date 1 September 2017

End date 31 August 2020

Funded under

• Euratom

Total cost

€ 3 140 393,75

EU contribution

€ 2 981 592,23

Coordinated by

KARLSRUHER INSTITUT FUER TECHNOLOGIE
Germany

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (7)

First synthesis report
Third synthesis report
Project newsletter 1
Project newsletter 2
Project newsletter 3
Second synthesis report
Detailed project exploitation plan

Publications

Conference proceedings (13)

Multi-physics transient simulations with TRIPOLI-4®

Author(s): Margaux Faucher, Davide Mancusi and Andrea Zoia
Published in: Proceedings to the International Conference of Physics of Reactors 2020 (PHYSOR 2020), 2020
Publisher: American Nuclear Society

Towards zero-variance schemes for kinetic Monte Carlo simulations

Author(s): Davide Mancusi and Andrea Zoia
Published in: Proceedings to the International Conference on Physics of Reactors 2020 (PHYSOR 2020), 2020
Publisher: American Nuclear Society

Multi-physics simulations with TRIPOLI-4 ® and Serpent 2: coupling neutron transport with the sub-channel code SUBCHANFLOW

Author(s): Margaux Faucher, Davide Mancusi, Andrea Zoia, Diego Ferraro, Manuel Garcia, Uwe Imke, Jaakko Leppänen, Ville Valtavirta
Published in: Proceedings to the INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON ADVANCES IN NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS 2019 (ICAPP 2019), 2019
Publisher: CEA

Development of a Spatial Domain Decomposition Scheme for Monte Carlo Neutron Transport

Author(s): Manuel García, Diego Ferraro, Victor Hugo Sanchez-Espinoza, Luigi Mercatali, Jaakko Leppänen, Ville Valtavirta
Published in: Volume 3: Nuclear Fuel and Material, Reactor Physics, and Transport Theory, 2018, Page(s) V003T02A042, ISBN 978-0-7918-5145-6
Publisher: ASME
DOI: 10.1115/icone26-82144

Foreseen Capabilities, Bottlenecks Identification and Potential Limitations of Serpent MC Transport Code in Large-Scale Full 3-D Burnup Calculations

Author(s): Diego Ferraro, Manuel Garcia, Luigi Mercatali, Victor Hugo Sanchez Espinoza, Jaakko Leppänen, Ville Valtavirta
Published in: Volume 3: Nuclear Fuel and Material, Reactor Physics, and Transport Theory, 2018, Page(s) V003T02A049, ISBN 978-0-7918-5145-6
Publisher: ASME
DOI: 10.1115/icone26-82305

Time-Dependent Modelling Of The JSI-Triga With Serpent 2

Author(s): Ville Valtavirta, Mohammad Hessan, Jaakko Leppänen, Vid Merljak, Dušan Čalič,Žiga Štancar, Luka Snoj
Published in: 27th International Conference Nuclear Energy for New Europe 2018, 2018
Publisher: NENE Conference

McSAFE - High Performance Monte Carlo Methods for Safety Demonstration

Author(s): V. Sánchez (KIT), L. Mercatali (KIT), F. Malvagi (CEA), P. Smith (AMEC), J. Dufek (KTH), M. Seidl ( Preussen Elektra ), L. Milisdorfer (CEZ), J. Leppanen (VTT), E. Hoogenboom (DNC), R. Vocka (NRI), S. Kliem (HZDR), P. Van Uffelen (JRC), N. Kerkar (EDF)
Published in: 28th Symposium of AER on VVER Reactor Physics and Reactor Safety, 2018
Publisher: AER

McSAFE - High Performance Monte Carlo Methods for SAFEty Demonstration

Author(s): Sanchez, V.; Mercatali, L.; Malvagi, F.; Smith, P.; Dufek, J.; Seidl, M.; Milisdorfer, L.; Leppanen, J.; Hoogenboom, E.; Vocka, R.; Kliem, S.; Van Uffelen, P.; Kerkar, N.
Published in: Nuclear Days 2018 & Nugenia Forum, 2018, ISBN 1000-083252
Publisher: Nugenia Forum

Application of the Serpent-OpenFOAM coupled code system to the SEALER reactor core

Author(s): R. Tuominen, Ville Valtavirta, Jaakko Leppänen
Published in: Reactor Physics paving the way towards more efficient systems (PHYSOR2018), 2018
Publisher: ANS

New stochastic substep based burnup scheme for Serpent 2

Author(s): Ville ValtavirtaJ Leppänen
Published in: PHYSOR 2018, 2018
Publisher: ANS

Variance-reduction methods for Monte Carlo kinetic simulations

Author(s): Margaux Faucher, Davide Mancusi and Andrea Zoia
Published in: Proceedings to the International Conference on Mathematics Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2019), 2019
Publisher: American Nuclear Society

Integration of the MONK Monte Carlo Neutronics Code in the NURESIM Platform

Author(s): F. Tantillo, S. D. Richards, A. J. Smethurst, D. J. Long
Published in: International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering,, 2019
Publisher: American Nuclear Society

Serpent and TRIPOLI-4® transient calculations comparisons for several reactivity insertion scenarios in a 3D PWR minicore benchmark

Author(s): Diego Ferraro, Margaux Faucher, Davide Mancusi, Andrea Zoia, Ville Valtavirta, Jaakko Leppänen and Victor Sanchez-Espinoza
Published in: Proceedings to the International Conference on Mathematics Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2019), 2019
Publisher: American Nuclear Society

Peer reviewed articles (8)

Zero-variance schemes for kinetic Monte Carlo simulations

Author(s): Davide Mancusi and Andrea Zoia
Published in: Eur. Phys. J. Plus, Issue 135.6, 2020, Page(s) 401, ISSN 2190-5444
Publisher: Springer Science + Business Media

Optimal neutron population growth in accelerated Monte Carlo criticality calculations

Author(s): Ignas Mickus, Jan Dufek
Published in: Annals of Nuclear Energy, Issue 117, 2018, Page(s) 297-304, ISSN 0306-4549
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.anucene.2018.03.046

Serpent/SCF pin-level multiphysics solutions for the VERA Fuel Assembly benchmark

Author(s): Diego Ferraro, Manuel Garcia, Uwe Imke, Ville Valtavirta, Jaakko Leppänen, Victor Sanchez-Espinoza
Published in: Annals of Nuclear Energy, Issue 128, 2019, Page(s) 102-114, ISSN 0306-4549
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.anucene.2018.12.047

Modeling of the SPERT transients using Serpent 2 with time-dependent capabilities

Author(s): Alex Levinsky, Ville Valtavirta, Frederick P. Adams, Vinicius N.P. Anghel
Published in: Annals of Nuclear Energy, Issue 125, 2019, Page(s) 80-98, ISSN 0306-4549
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.anucene.2018.09.038

Acceleration of fission source convergence in the Serpent 2 Monte Carlo code using a response matrix based solution for the initial source distribution

Author(s): Jaakko Leppänen
Published in: Annals of Nuclear Energy, Issue 128, 2019, Page(s) 63-68, ISSN 0306-4549
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.anucene.2018.12.044

New kinetic simulation capabilities for T ripoli -4®: Methods and applications

Author(s): Margaux Faucher, Davide Mancusi, Andrea Zoia
Published in: Annals of Nuclear Energy, Issue 120, 2018, Page(s) 74-88, ISSN 0306-4549
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.anucene.2018.05.030

New energy deposition treatment in the Serpent 2 Monte Carlo transport code

Author(s): Riku Tuominen, Ville Valtavirta, Jaakko Leppänen
Published in: Annals of Nuclear Energy, Issue 129, 2019, Page(s) 224-232, ISSN 0306-4549
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.anucene.2019.02.003

Stochastic mixing of bound thermal scattering data in MONK

Author(s): Simon Richards
Published in: Annals of Nuclear Energy, Issue 136, 2020, Page(s) 107052, ISSN 0306-4549
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.anucene.2019.107052