Introduction of plutonium systems to the nuclear criticality slide rule
M. Duluc, D. Heinrichs, S. Kim, T. Miller, C. Celik, C. Hopper, A. Brown, C. Wilson, M. Troisne, American Nuclear Society - ANS, 555 North Kensington Avenue, La Grange Park, IL 60526 (United States), ANS NCSD 2017: Nuclear Criticality Safety Division topical meeting - Criticality safety, pushing boundaries by modernizing and integrating data, methods, and regulations, Carlsbad, NM (United States), 10-15 Sep 2017; Other Information: Country of input: France; 16 refs; Available on CD-ROM from American Nuclear Society - ANS, 555 North Kensington Avenue, La Grange Park, IL 60526 (United States)
AWE (UK), IRSN (France), LLNL (USA) and ORNL (USA) began a long term collaboration effort in 2015 to update the nuclear criticality Slide Rule for the emergency response to a nuclear criticality accident. This document, published almost 20 years ago, gives order of magnitude estimates of key parameters, such as number of fissions and doses (neutron/gamma), useful for emergency response teams and public authorities. This paper presents, firstly, the motivation and the long term objectives for this update, then it introduces the initial critical configuration, and finally it presents the preliminary results obtained with modern 3D radiation transport codes and nuclear data for new configurations including plutonium systems. (authors)
Book, 2017
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American Nuclear Society - ANS; La Grange Park, IL (United States), 2017