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The Molten Salt Fast Reactor (MSFR) is one of the six GEN-IV reactor designs. In the MSFR, the liquid fuel is the coolant, which moves throughout the primary circuit. This complex phenomenology requires multiphysics modeling. In the present…
Neutron diffusion length in reactor grade graphite is measured both experimentally and theoretically. The experimental work includes Monte Carlo (MC) coding using 'MCNP' and Finite Element Analysis (FEA) coding suing 'COMSOL Multiphysics'…
We perform ab initio calculations of charged graphene and single-wall carbon nanotubes (CNTs). A wealth of electromechanical behaviors is obtained: (1) Both nanotubes and graphene expand upon electron injection. (2) Upon hole injection,…
In a conventional light water reactor loaded with a range of uranium and plutonium-based fuel mixtures, the variation in antineutrino production over the cycle reflects both the initial core fissile inventory and its evolution. Under the…
Simulation tools have become an integral tool in the analysis of neutronic parameters of reactor units. These simulation tools are built to solve the neutron transport equation. In this article, the MCU-PTR simulation tool is used in the…
The charge inversion phenomenon is studied by molecular dynamics simulations, focusing on size and valence asymmetric salts, and a threshold of surface charge density for charge inversion. The charge inversion criteria by the…
A model for plasma/neutral fluid interaction was developed and included in the DELiTE code framework implementation of non-linear MHD equations. The source rates of ion, electron and neutral fluid momentum and energy due to ionization and…
Since Reactor Pressure Vessel steels are ferromagnetic, they provide a convenient means to monitor changes in the mechanical properties of the material upon irradiation with high energy particles, by measuring their magnetic properties.…
Molten salts are being used or explored for thermal energy storage and conversion systems in concentrating solar power and nuclear power plants. Thermal conductivity of molten salts is an important thermophysical property dictating the…
Neutron characteristics of salt blanket micromodels containing mixtures of sodium, zirconium and uranium sulphides were measured on FKBN-2M, BIGR and MAKET installations. The effective fission cross sections of neptunium, plutonium,…
The cross section averaged over 235U thermal-neutron induced fission spectrum is a fundamental quantity that can be used in evaluation and validation of nuclear data. Many experiments focused on the determination of Spectrum Averaged Cross…
Molten fluorides are known to show favorable thermophysical properties which make them good candidate coolants for nuclear fission reactors. Here we investigate the special case of mixtures of lithium fluoride and thorium fluoride, which…
Salt is a very common molecule in aqueous environments but the question of whether the interactions of monovalent ions Na^+ and Cl^- ,with the neutral heads of phospholipids are impactful enough to change the membrane rigidity is still a…
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) investigations of electrochemical systems require gas-tight and non-metallic cell housings. This contribution reports on the development and evaluation of a cylindrical battery container in combination with…
10 years from now medium baseline reactor experiments will attempt to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy from the differences (RL+PV) between the extrema of the Fourier transformed neutrino spectra. Recently Qian et al. have claimed that…
Neutron diffraction studies of antiferromagnetic MnO confined to MCM-41 type matrices with channel diameters 24-87 A demonstrate a continuous magnetic phase transition in contrast to a discontinuous first order transition in the bulk. The…
Benchmark reactions involving molecular hydrogen, such as H$_2$+D or H$_2$+Cl, provide the ideal platforms to investigate the effect of Near Threshold Resonances (NTR) on scattering processes. Due to the small reduced mass of those systems,…
We have investigated the possibility that large rock salt formations might be suitable as target masses for detection of neutrinos of energies about 10 PeV and above. In neutrino interactions at these energies, the secondary electromagnetic…
A re-evaluation of the Molten Salt Breeder Reactor concept has revealed problems related to its safety and to the complexity of the reprocessing considered. A reflection is carried out anew in view of finding innovative solutions leading to…
Basing on the relativistic theory in superstrong magnetic fields (SMFs), we investigate the influence of strong electron screening (SES) on the rates of nuclear reaction $^{23}$Mg $(p, \gamma)$ $^{24}$Al by three models of Lai (LD), Fushiki…