In nuclear reactor analysis, understanding the effects of spacer grids on flow have an important place in determining the reactor thermal-hydraulic performance and ensuring that reactor works under reliable operating ...

Best estimate codes used in the safety analysis, licensing, research and development fields frequently are cost efficient, quick and reliable tools. For these codes which are widely used by the industry, universities and ...

The methods of data acquiring and processing in the 4πβ-γ coincidence counting systems for radionuclide standardization have been employed by using analogue electronic modules for decades. Since the supply and maintenance ...

Pencil beam algorithm is a fast and accurate method for dose computation at Radiotherapy. This algorithm was developed for filtered x-ray energies. The aim of this study was developing pencil beam kernels by utilizing x-ray ...

Simulation of radiation detectors using the Monte Carlo method is extensively utilized for various purposes such as obtaining detector efficiencies for primary activity measurements, transferring values obtained from ...

Zirconium alloys are used as fuel cladding material in Light Water Reactors (LWR) and act as the first barrier to fission product release by physically separating uranium oxide fuel pellets and primary coolant. During ...

Neutron effective cross sections those define the interactions of neutrons with fuel elements are important parameters in defining operational and safety limitations of nuclear reactors. Hence, generation of these cross ...

Accurate and precise neutronics calculations are important for reactor safety while defining safety limits for nuclear reactors. These calculations include the generation of neutron cross sections, as well. Some simplifications, ...

In this study, the analysis of a dry storage cask for accident-tolerant and high-burnup spent fuel was performed. For a dry storage cask design currently in use, in case of loading with the accident-tolerant fuel discharged ...

In this study, thermal analysis was performed for the TN-24P cask by using Computational Fluid Dynamics method. For the analysis, ANSYS Fluent as a CFD tool was selected since it has the proper finite volume methods to ...