Congratulations to Roy Gross for successfully passing his PhD candidacy exam and approval of his doctorate research plan.

FJOH-2018 announcement Frédéric Joliot/Otto Hahn (FJOH) Summer School on “Nuclear Reactors Physics, Fuels, and Systems” Highlights: This 2018 edition will be on Maximizing the Benefits of Experiments for the Simulation, Design and Analysis of Reactors. It will be held in Aix-en-Provence, from August 22nd to August 31st, 2018 More information is available here: http://www.fjohss.eu, including an online application form. The application deadline is May 15, 2018. FJOH School Des

The International Reactor Physics Evaluation Project (IRPhE) was established in 1999 by the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Nuclear Science Committee (NSC). The project gather experts in reactor physics and nuclear experimental programs from around the world in order to provide the international nuclear community with qualified benchmark data by collecting reactor physics experimental data from nuclear facilities, worldwide. The last IRPhE Technical Review Group meeting took

Our new paper entitled article “Experimental estimation of the delayed neutron fraction βeff of the MAESTRO core in the MINERVE zero power reactor” has been published in the Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology. It is available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/8MXgXmUDmiuPrfBZNzdZ/full The paper is about a new and very cool method to measure the delayed neutron fraction of a reactor core at zero power. The method was developed and tested during an experimental campa

A collaboration agreement on reactor core physics studies has been signed between the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives – CEA) and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. The scientific collaboration focuses on feasibility analysis of representative configurations of core degradation situation during severe accidents in nuclear reactors, and includes a Ph.D research study conducted and financed

Our paper, “Estimation of the delayed neutron fraction b_eff of the MEASTRO core in MINERVE Zero Power Reactor” was presented at the PHYSOR 2014 conference in Kyoto, Japan. This work has been done in collaboration with researchers from  CEA DEN/CAD/DER/SPEx/LPE headed by Dr. Patrick Blaise and with researchers from NRCN. This work summarizes the results and analyses of a set of measurements, performed at ZPR MINERVE in Cadarache during September 2013, in order to estimate the