Seminar at ORNL, Reactor and Nuclear Systems Division / Radiation Transport Group An overview of the work performed at the Reactor Physics Division of the Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia, was presented. The research is focused around the TRIGA reactor and the fusion reactors JET and ITER. The research in reactor physics is oriented mostly into new methods for power and research reactor calculations, where special attention is given to the calibration and benchmarking of nuclear data and computational methods. A power reactor core design package has been developed by Department's researchers and is being used to calculate fuel cycles for Krsko Nuclear Power Plant since its initial startup. We are intensively involved in transport calculations for JET – the Joint European Torus with neutron calibration support and transport calculations and for the future reactor ITER.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 29092391Tritium measurements are important to monitor the fusion reactions in a tokamak or in cas of benchmark experiments in the field of Fusion Neutronics. A monitoring method of over the manganese foils activation is described in the paper.
F.01 Acquisition of new practical knowledge, information and skills
COBISS.SI-ID: 28708647Head to the JSI team for the start-up zero power physics tests in the Nuclear Power Plant Krško; cycle 28 After each outage in the Krško NPP it is necessary, in accordance with the requirements of the SNSA, to perform the testing of the reactor on zero power before the increase of its power. In doing so, the responses to the insertion of the reactor control assemblies, temperature changes and the concentration of boric acid in the coolant are compared with the previously calculated values. Since 2004, with one exception for postdoctoral training abroad, I have led a group of experts from the Jožef Stefan Institute, to perform the said tests. Each time the tests were performed successfully and thus the permission for the operation for the next cycle could be obtained.
F.12 Improvements to an existing service
COBISS.SI-ID: 29359911