NEA-1486: ICSBEP-2008, International Criticality Safety Benchmark Experiment Handbook

Program-name Package-ID Status ICSBEP-HANDBOOK NEA-1486/01 Obsolete ICSBEP2001-HANDBOOK NEA-1486/02 Obsolete ICSBEP2004-HANDBOOK NEA-1486/03 Obsolete ICSBEP2005-HANDBOOK NEA-1486/04 Obsolete ICSBEP2006-HANDBOOK NEA-1486/05 Obsolete ICSBEP2007-HANDBOOK NEA-1486/06 Obsolete ICSBEP2008-HANDBOOK NEA-1486/07 Arrived

Machines used: Package-ID Orig.Computer Test Computer NEA-1486/07 Many Computers

3. DESCRIPTION - The Critically Safety Benchmark Evaluation Project (CSBEP) was initiated in October of 1992 by the United Sates Department of Energy. The project quickly became an international effort as scientist from other interested countries became involved. The International Criticality Safety Benchmark Evaluation Project (ICSBEP) is now an official activity of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development - Nuclear Energy Agency (OECD-NEA).

This handbook contains criticality safety benchmark specifications that have been derived from experiments that were performed at various nuclear critical facilities around the world. The benchmark specifications are intended for use by criticality safety engineers to validate calculational techniques used to establish minimum subcritical margins for operations with fissile material and
to determine criticality alarm requirement and placement. Many of the specifications are also useful for nuclear data testing. The example calculations presented do not constitute a validation of the codes or cross section data.

The work of the ICSBEP is documented as an International Handbook of Evaluated Criticality Safety Benchmark Experiments. Currently, the handbook spans over 45,000 pages and contains 485 evaluations with benchmark specifications for 4,207 critical, near-critical, or subcritical configurations, 24 criticality alarm placement/shielding configurations with multiple dose points for each, and 155 configurations that have been categorized as fundamental physics measurements that are relevant to criticality safety applications.

The handbook is intended for use by criticality safety analysts to perform necessary validations of their calculational techniques and is expected to be a valuable tool for decades to come.

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The ICSBEP Handbook is available on DVD. You may request a DVD by completing the DVD Request Form on the internet. Access to the Handbook on the Internet requires a password. You may request a password by completing the Password Request Form. The Web address is: http://icsbep.inel.gov/handbook.shtml
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4. METHOD OF SOLUTION - Experiments that are found unacceptable for use as criticality safety benchmark experiments are discussed in these evaluations; however, benchmark specifications are not derived for such experiments (in some cases models are provided in an appendix). Approximately 725 experimental configurations are categorized as unacceptable for use as criticality safety benchmark experiments. Additional evaluations are in progress and will be added to this document periodically. The document is organized in a manner that allows easy inclusion of additional evaluations as they become available.

9. STATUS
NEA-1486/01: 19-OCT-2004 Obsolete
NEA-1486/02: 19-OCT-2004 Obsolete
NEA-1486/03: 29-SEP-2005 Obsolete
NEA-1486/04: 20-SEP-2006 Obsolete
NEA-1486/05: 26-SEP-2007 Obsolete
NEA-1486/06: 08-OCT-2008 Obsolete restricted
NEA-1486/07: 08-OCT-2008 Masterfiled restricted

10. REFERENCES -
NEA-1486/07:
- NEA Nuclear Science Committee:
International Handbook of Evaluated Criticality Safety Benchmark Experiments
NEA/NSC/DOC(95)03 (release Sept.2008)

12. PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE(S) USED -
NEA-1486/07:

15. NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHORS -
  J. Blair Briggs
  Idaho National Laboratory
  2525 North Fremont
  P.O. Box 1625
  Idaho Falls, ID 83415-3860 (United States)

This handbook was prepared by a working group comprised of experienced criticality safety personnel from the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, the Russian Federation, France, Hungary, Republic of Korea, Slovenia, Serbia, Kazakhstan, Israel, Spain, Brazil, Czech Republic, Poland, India, Canada, P.R. China and Sweden.

17. CATEGORIES -

- Y. Integral Experiments Data, Databases, Benchmarks

Keywords: BENCHMARKS, CRITICALITY, EXPERIMENT, SAFETY