Articles and reports on criticality safety

Nuclear Criticality Safety: A Subject of Growing International Importance
M.C. Brady-Raap, J.B. Briggs and E. Sartori (from NEA News)

Status and Perspectives of the OECD/NEA Working Party on Nuclear Criticality Safety Projects
M.C. Brady-Raap, J.B. Briggs, P. Cousinou, N.T. Gulliford, Y. Naito, Y. Nomura, E. Sartori, T.E. Valentine, W. Weber, R.M. Westfall, ICNC'99, Versailles, 20-24 September 1999

Proceedings of the Experts' Meeting on Experimental Needs in Criticality Safety
Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, 25-26 September 1995

International Handbook of Evaluated Criticality Safety Benchmark Experiments

OECD/NEA Burn-up Credit Criticality Benchmark Phase IV-A

Reactivity Prediction Calculations for Infinite Arrays of PWR MOX Fuel Pincells
G. O'Connor (DfT), R. Bowden (BNFL), P. Thorne (BNFL)
NEA/NSC/DOC(2003)3, May 2003.

OECD/NEA Burn-up Credit Criticality Benchmark Phase IV-B

Results of Phase IV-B Analysis
G. O'Connor (BNFL), P. H. Liem (NAIS)
NEA/NSC/DOC(2003)4, May 2003.

OECD/NEA Burn-up Credit Criticality Benchmark Phase III-B

Burnup Calculations of BWR Spent Fuel Assemblies in Storage and Transport
H. Okuno, Y. Naito, K. Suyama
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February 2002, JAERI-Research 2002-001, NEA/NSC/DOC(2002)2

OECD/NEA Burn-up Credit Criticality Benchmark Phase III-A

Criticality Calculations of of BWR Spent Fuel Assemblies in Storage and Transport
H. Okuno, Y. Naito, Y. Ando
September 2000, JAERI-Research 2000-041, NEA/NSC/DOC(2000)12

International Studies on Burn-up Credit Criticality Safety by an OECD/NEA Working Group

M.C. Brady, H. Okuno, M.D. DeHart, A. Nouri, E. Sartori
Paper presented at the Intl. Conference on the Physics of Nuclear Science & Technology, Long Island, NY, 5-8 Oct. 1998

Burn-up Credit Criticality Benchmark Analysis of Phase II-B Results:
Conceptual PWR Spent Fuel Transportation Cask
A. Nouri
May 1998, IPSN/98-05, NEA/NSC/DOC(1998)1

Findings of the OECD/NEA Study on Burn-up Credit

M.C. Brady, M. Takano, M.D. DeHart, H. Okuno, A. Nouri, E. Sartori
Paper presented at Physor'96, Mito, Japan

OECD/NEA Burn-up Credit Calculational Criticality Benchmark Phase-IB
Isotopic Prediction: Final Report

M.D. DeHart (ORNL), M.C. Brady (SNL), C.V. Parks (ORNL)
June 1996, ORNL-6901, NEA/NSC/DOC(1996)6

OECD/NEA Burn-up Credit Criticality Benchmark: Results of Phase IIA
PWR Spent Fuel Rods Effect of Axial Burn-up Profile

M. Takano, H. Okuno, (JAERI) JAERI-Research 96-003
February 1996, NEA/NSC/DOC(1996)1

Burn-up Credit Criticality Benchmark Final Results of Phase 1A
Infinite Array of PWR Pin-Cells

January 1994, Makoto Takano (JAERI)
JAERI-M-94-003, NEA/NSC/DOC(1993)22

Spent fuel isotopic inventory data

The Isotopic Compositions Database System on Spent Fuels in Light Water Reactors (SFCOMPO), 
Masayuki Kurosawa, Yoshitaka Naito, Hiroki Sakamoto, Toshiyuki Kaneko,   
JAERI-Data/Code 96-036, February 1997.

Standard Problem Exercise on Criticality Codes for Spent LWR Fuel Transport Containers

CSNI Report No. 71 May 1982, CSNI Working Group, (Unrestricted in June 1990)
NEA/NEACRP/L(1990)326

Standard Problem Exercise on Criticality Codes for Large Arrays of Packages of Fissile Materials.

CSNI Report No. 78 August 1984, CSNI Working Group (Unrestricted in June 1990)
NEA/NEACRP/L(1990)327

Critically Analysis for Storage and Shipping of Nuclear Fuel Elements Outside of Reactors

G. Ermumcu, J. Gonnord, A. Meunier, J.C. Nimal, NEA/NEACRP/L(1979)237

The Experimental Results from CRISTO Qualification of the Predicted Criticality of Fuel Storages

C. Golinelli, A. Darraud, P. Marsault, NEA/NEACRP/L(1979)236

Criticality of fuel undergoing dissolution

Analysis of the Results of the OECD/NEA Fuel Dissolver Benchmark No. 19 through Neutron Balance Evaluation

of International Criticality Calculations
A. Santamarina, H. Smith (CEA)
December 1990, NEA/NEACRP/L(1990)325

NEACRP Theoretical Benchmark Exercise on Criticality Codes for Dissolving Fissile Oxides in Acids. Benchmark No. 20

A. Santamarina, H. Smith, CEA Cadarache, NEA/NEACRP/L(1989)320

Standard Problem Exercise on Criticality Codes for Dissolving Fissile Oxides in Acids
A Report of the NEA CRP Criticality Working Group
Prepared by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Editor: Elliot Whitesides)
Issued April 1990, NEA/NEACRP/L(1988)306