The 2016 Edition of the IRPhEP Handbook
- Idaho National Laboratory, P.O. Box 1625, Idaho Falls, ID 83415-3855 (United States)
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) (United States)
The International Reactor Physics Experiment Evaluation Project (IRPhEP) was established to preserve integral reactor physics experimental data, including separate or special effects data for nuclear energy and technology applications. Over the past several decades, numerous experiments have been performed worldwide to support reactor operations, measurements, design, and safety. These experiments represent a large investment of infrastructure, expertise, and cost, and are valuable resources of data for present and future research. These valuable assets provide the basis for recording, development, and validation of methods. If the experimental data are lost, the high cost to repeat many of these measurements may be prohibitive. The purpose of the IRPhEP is to provide an extensively peer-reviewed set of reactor physics-related integral data that can be used by reactor designers and safety analysts to validate the analytical tools used to design next-generation reactors and establish the safety basis for operation of those reactors. Contributors from around the world collaborate in the evaluation and review of selected benchmark experiments for inclusion in the International Handbook of Evaluated Reactor Physics Benchmark Experiments (IRPhEP Handbook). Further information regarding the IRPhEP, including highlighted reactor physics benchmark evaluations, can be found in the November and December 2014 editions of Nuclear Science and Engineering. Several new evaluations have been prepared for inclusion in the September 2016 edition of the IRPhEP Handbook. (authors)
- OSTI ID:
- 23042845
- Journal Information:
- Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, Vol. 115; Conference: 2016 ANS Winter Meeting and Nuclear Technology Expo, Las Vegas, NV (United States), 6-10 Nov 2016; Other Information: Country of input: France; 19 refs.; available from American Nuclear Society - ANS, 555 North Kensington Avenue, La Grange Park, IL 60526 (US); ISSN 0003-018X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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