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Record W1548740931

Simulation of Subcritical Experimentsin ZED-2 using G4-STORK

2015· dissertation· en· W1548740931 on OpenAlexfundno aff
Salma Mahzooni

Bibliographic record

VenueMacSphere (McMaster University) · 2015
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicNuclear reactor physics and engineering
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersMcMaster University
KeywordsStorkEnvironmental scienceBiologyEcology
DOInot available

Abstract

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In nuclear reactors, transients may happen, for example at the time of refueling, rod withdrawals or insertions, and during reactor accidents. Transient behavior may result from changes either in materials or in the geometry of the reactor core components. An enhanced understanding of these time-dependent changes in reactors may improve the reactor operation and reduce the probability of accidents. In spite of the importance of understanding the conditions that lead to transients, there are not many time-dependent reactor simulation codes available. This study is focused on modeling the sub-critical reactivity measurements in the ZED- 2 reactor, using the recently developed G4STORK computer code. The ZED-2 experiment measures the sub-critical state resulting from a step-wise reduction of the moderator level. G4-STORK is a time-dependent Monte Carlo code for reactor neutronics calculations based on the GEANT4 toolkit. G4-STORK has the ability to follow the evolution of the neutron population in time, including delayed neutrons, and to model the resulting changes in material and geometric properties of a reactor. The keff values calculated by G4-STORK were compared with the experimental measurements and with MCNP results. The comparison shows significant discrepancies with both MCNP and the experimental measurements. These discrepancies are increasing as the reactor becomes increasingly subcritical (from ∼20 mk to ∼40 mk). The recently developed G4-STORK code is still at an early stage of its development, and needs to be improved further to be used for transient analyses of the reactors. Given the flexibility of G4-STORK, there are many opportunity to improve and extend this code.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.012
Threshold uncertainty score0.025

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0020.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.020
GPT teacher head0.230
Teacher spread0.211 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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