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TRP -> Campaign/Number -> TRP 27
TRP 27. Reactor-Accelorator Coupled Experiments Project
September 2004 - September 2007
Research Objectives & Methods
The specific research objectives of this three-year project were to design and conduct accelerator driven experiments, to help demonstrate to the U.S. the ability to design, compute, and conduct accelerator-driven subcritical systems (ADSS) experiments and to predict and measure source importance, coupling efficiency, sub-critical reactor kinetics and source-driven transients. In addition, databases were created for both steady state and transient ADSS experiments for the nuclear community to develop and test new computational codes and methods, and the importance of a driving neutron source in various regions of different subcritical assemblies will be mapped. Experiments will be conducted and compared to calculations with radiation transport and thermal-hydraulics codes such as MCNPX and RELAP.
Researchers
- Denis Beller, Mechanical Engineering
Collaborators
- George Imel, Argonne National Laboratory
- Idaho State University:
- John Bennion
- Jianwei Chen
- Alan Hunt
- Konstantin Sabourov
- Frank Harmon, Director, Idaho Accelerator Center
- William Charlton, Texas A&M University
- Sean O’Kelly, University of Texas at Austin
- John C. Lee, University of Michigan
- Christian Jammes, CEA
Students
- Evgeny Stankovskiy, PhD, Mechanical Engineering
- Timothy Beller, MS, Materials & Nuclear Engineering
- Ryan LeCounte, MS, Mechanical Engineering
- Shruti Patil, MS, Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Brice Howard, Undergraduate, Mechanical Engineering