Status of the International Criticality Safety Benchmark Evaluation Project
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- J. Foster and Associates, Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Nuclear Energy Agency, Paris (France)
The International Criticality Safety Benchmark Evaluation Project (ICSBEP) has continued its work generating evaluations of new and historical criticality benchmark experiments since the last update to the nuclear criticality safety community at the 11th International Conference on Nuclear Criticality Safety (ICNC 2019) in Paris, France. Three additional versions of the ICSBEP Handbook have been published since that update, and the Technical Review Group (TRG) held two in-person (in 2019 and 2023) and three virtual (2020 and 2021) meetings to review and approve additional benchmarks. The 2019 edition of the ICSBEP Handbook included five new evaluations with 79 new configurations, the 2020 version of the ICSBEP Handbook contained five new evaluations totaling 76 new configurations, and the 2021 version of the ICSBEP handbook contained five new evaluations with a total of 57 different configurations. The ICSBEP TRG met in October and December 2021, to review benchmarks for potential inclusion in the 2022 ICSBEP Handbook, with seven evaluations receiving provisional approval pending resolution of review group comments. Final comment resolution for some of these evaluations is currently underway and handbook publication should be completed soon. The ICSBEP TRG met again in person in April 2023 to review benchmarks for the 2023 ICSBEP Handbook, provisionally approving 7 new evaluations. The ICSBEP continues to deliver high-quality, peer reviewed evaluations of experiments relevant to the nuclear criticality safety community.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); J. Foster and Associates, Idaho Falls, ID (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Nuclear Energy Agency, Paris (France)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Nuclear Criticality Safety Program (NCSP)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC52-07NA27344
- OSTI ID:
- 1994493
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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