3rd Technical Workshop On Fuel Cycle Simulation

9 juil. 2018, 08:00 → 11 juil. 2018, 18:00 Europe/Paris

FIAP Jean Monnet Paris

The organizing committee welcomes all scientists working around nuclear fuel cycle simulation to share their works and would like to focus this year’s meeting on the following topics:

• Reactor models
• Fuel cycle simulators and data treatment
• Uncertainty management in fuel cycle simulations
• Economy and interdisciplinary applications
• Scenario studies and non-proliferation
• Panel discussion with decision makers

Dynamic fuel cycle simulation tool are used around the world for many different applications, future fuel cycle option assessment, economic and sociology studies, non-proliferation, .... Over the past year different tools have been developed by the different communities, using different philosophies, different objects and different capabilities.

This third dynamic nuclear fuel cycle workshop aims to connect those research efforts and to facilitate the development of international collaborations.

The focus of this workshop is to provide the opportunity to scientist to present and exchange about their work with nuclear fuel cycle experts, to build collaborations and projects at national and international levels.

This 2018 workshop is co-organized by CNRS/IN2P3, IRSN and CEA.

This international workshop is also conceived as an opportunity for enhancing discussions between representatives of different social worlds involved in construction, evaluation or use of fuel cycle scenarios. Besides technical aspects, fuel cycle simulations have important, yet often implicit, political and social dimensions.

The key moment of this third international workshop will be a panel discussion between key figures in the nuclear field from politics, industry and research around the following question: (Re)thinking the future of nuclear energy - How to design and use energy scenarios to better inform policy decisions? This special session will take place on Tuesday 10th July 2018 and be chaired by two social scientists.

We are glad to announce that the participants will have the opportunity to hear from Christian Bataille (French Deputy), Peter Lyons (Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy at the DOE) and Jacques Repussard (Former Director General of french TSO - IRSN).

In order to make the session highly participative, participants are invited to submit questions to panelist via this following link Email For Questions.

 

3TWFCS_booklet.pdf

FIAP Jean Monnet

SESSION SHS: Panel discussion with decision makers Tillement_Panel discussion with decision makers.pdf

lun. 9 juillet

09:00 → 09:30 Welcome

09:30 → 10:20 Reactor models for fuel cycle simulations

09:30 Reactor models in Dynamic Fuel Cycle Tools

Orateur: Xavier Doligez (IPNO-IN2P3-CNRS)

09:40 FITXS: A fast burn-up scheme based on the fitting of one-group cross-sections

Orateur: Máté Halász (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)

10:00 Modeling greatly heterogeneous cores in CLASS

Orateur: Léa Tillard (IRSN)

10:20 → 10:40 COFFEE

10:40 → 12:20 Reactor models for fuel cycle simulations

10:40 Modeling MSRs in DYMOND

Orateur: Bo Feng (ANL)

11:00 Modeling a fast MSR with ORION

Orateur: Eva Davidson (ORNL)

11:20 Molten salt reactor modeling and simulation

Orateur: Benjamin Betzler

11:40 --DISCUSSION--

12:20 → 14:00 LUNCH

14:00 → 15:40 Fuel cycle simulators and data treatment

14:00 The Fuel Cycle Analysis Toolbox

Orateur: Brent Dixon (INL)

14:40 Modeling fuel cycle events and advancing time in SITON v2.0

Orateur: Aron Brolly (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

15:00 Improvements of Nuclear Fuel Cycle Simulation System (NFCSS) at IAEA

Orateur: Ki Seob Sim (IAEA)

15:20 Development of an Advanced Nuclear Fuel Cycle Simulator (FANCSEE) with Graphical User Interface

Orateur: Wacław Gudowski (KTH)

15:40 → 16:00 COFFEE

16:00 → 17:40 Fuel cycle simulators and data treatment

16:00 Using Supply and Demand Curves to Determine Facility Deployment

Orateur: Robert Flanagan (University of South Carolina)

16:20 Regulus: Visual Analysis Exploration of High Dimensional Nuclear Fuel Cycle Simulations Data

Orateur: Yarden Livnat (University of Utah)

16:40 Implementation of a Modernized Transmutation Library Database

Orateur: Nicholas Brown (Pennsylvania State University)

17:00 --DISCUSSION--

mar. 10 juillet

09:00 → 10:30 Economy and interdisciplinary applications

09:00 Economy and interdisciplinary applications of fuel cycle simulation

Orateur: Adrien Bidaud (CNRS - LPSC)

09:10 Requirements of load following by nuclear power plant as a function of variable renewable energies’s developpement.

Orateur: Adrien Bidaud (CNRS - LPSC)

09:30 Nuclear and Renewables in deregulated markets. Nuclear fuel cycle cost estimates with cross-disciplinary modelling

Orateur: Rodica Loisel (Université de Nantes, LEMNA )

09:50 How can we anticipate the evolution of the uranium cost to define when Fast Reactors will become competitive against Light Water Reactors?

Orateur: Anne Baschwitz (CEA)

10:10 Evaluation of non-nuclear material balance with the COSI software

Orateur: Philippe Miranda (CEA)

10:30 → 10:50 COFFEE

10:50 → 11:50 Economy and interdisciplinary applications

10:50 Economic Analysis of Alternative Transition Pathways to Improve Economic Considerations in Fuel Cycle Transition

Orateur: Brent Dixon (INL)

11:10 --DISCUSSION--

11:50 → 12:50 Confidence and robustness in fuel cycle simulations

11:50 Nuclear scenarios: an exercise of robustness analysis

Orateur: Guillaume Krivtchik (CEA)

12:30 Strategies for the uncertainty quantification of fuel cycle scenarios

Orateur: Aris Villacorta Skarbeli (CIEMAT)

12:50 → 14:20 LUNCH

14:20 → 15:40 Confidence and robustness in fuel cycle simulations

14:20 Impact of Macro Reactor Approximation on Scenario : Modeling in C.L.A.S.S

Orateur: Abdoul-Aziz Zakari-Issoufou (CNRS/IN2P3-IPNO)

14:40 A new kind of fuel cycle benchmark : FIT Benchmark

Orateur: Nicolas Thiollière (IMTA - CNRS )

15:00 --DISCUSSION--

15:40 → 16:00 COFFEE

16:00 → 18:00 Panel discussion with decision makers

18:30 → 20:30 COCKTAIL

mer. 11 juillet

09:00 → 10:20 Scenario studies and non-proliferation

09:00 Modeling off-normal cascade operations

Orateur: Paul P.H. Wilson (University of Madison)

09:40 Nuclear diversion scenario within the functional uncertainties

Orateur: Baptiste Mouginot (University of Madison)

10:00 Nuclear archeology: Reconstructing past fissile material production using measurements and fuel cycle simulations

Orateur: Malte Göttsche (Aachen University)

10:20 → 10:40 COFFEE

10:40 → 12:40 Scenario studies and non-proliferation

10:40 Integration Modeling to Decipher a fuel cycle

Orateur: Romarie Morales Rosado (PNNL)

11:00 Fuel Cycle Systems Scenario Analysis: Recycling LWR Plutonium in Thorium Fueled PT-HWRs

Orateur: Daniel Wojtaszek (Chalk River Laboratories)

11:20 Impact of Technology Characteristics on Transition to a Fast Reactor Fleet

Orateur: Ed Hoffman (ANL)

11:40 On the use of plutonium burning fast reactors to reduce PWR irradiated assemblies’ stockpile

Orateur: Timothée Kooyman (CEA)

12:00 --DISCUSSION--

12:40 → 12:50 CONCLUSION

12:50 → 14:20 LUNCH