Integral Benchmark Data for Nuclear Data Testing through the ICSBEP and the Newly Organized IRPHEP

Conference · Sun Apr 22 00:00:00 EDT 2007

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1051/ndata:07354· OSTI ID:912450

Blair Briggs, J. ^[1]; Scott, Lori ^[1]; Rugama, Yolanda ^[2]; Satori, Enrico ^[2]

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1. Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
2. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris (France). Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA)

The status of the International Criticality Safety Benchmark Evaluation Project (ICSBEP) was last reported in a nuclear data conference at the International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology, ND-2004, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Since that time the number and type of integral benchmarks have increased significantly. Included in the ICSBEP Handbook are criticality-alarm / shielding and fundamental physic benchmarks in addition to the traditional critical / subcritical benchmark data. Since ND 2004, a reactor physics counterpart to the ICSBEP, the International Reactor Physics Experiment Evaluation Project (IRPhEP) was initiated. The IRPhEP is patterned after the ICSBEP, but focuses on other integral measurements, such as buckling, spectral characteristics, reactivity effects, reactivity coefficients, kinetics measurements, reaction-rate and power distributions, nuclide compositions, and other miscellaneous-type measurements in addition to the critical configuration. The status of these two projects is discussed and selected benchmarks highlighted in this paper.

• Research Organization: Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States); Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris (France). Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Nuclear Criticality Safety Program (NCSP)
• DOE Contract Number: AC07-05ID14517
• OSTI ID: 912450
• Report Number(s): INL/CON-06-11805
• Resource Type: Conference paper
• Conference Information: ND 2007 - International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology, Nice (France), 22-27 Apr 2007; https://nd2007.edpsciences.org/articles/ndata/abs/2007/01/contents/contents.html#section_10.1051/ndata:07718
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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