SUNBEAM
- Next Event: NINE Headquarters, Lucca (Italy), 09-20 June 2025
- Early Registration deadline: April 18, 2025
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History and Experience
SUNBEAM originates from the experience of 3D SUNCOP (Scaling, UNcertainty and 3D COuPled Codes) courses revisiting the course’s contents and focusing more on validation requirements, licensing aspects and multi-physics, multi-scale developments and applications. 3D SUNCOP was held for nineteen editions in different countries and organizations (University of Pisa, Pennsylvania State University, University of Zagreb, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Nucleoelectrica Argentina S.A, Texas A&M University, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, Institute for Energy of the Joint Research Center, General Electric Hitachi, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Imperial College, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences) with more than 700 participants and about 25 to 30 teachers lecturing at each of the two to three week courses.
Objective
To transfer to the participants competence and experience gained over the last decades through participation in benchmarks, International Standard Problems and international cooperation by a group of experts from different organizations (industrial experts, regulators, researchers, and university professors) in the following fields: Best-Estimate Plus Uncertainty approach including uncertainty methodologies and application in licensing framework, Scaling Analysis, Validation Process of Evaluation Models, and Development and Applications of Multi-physics, Multi-scale tools.
Expected Products
The Training Course provides a transfer of experience and know-how from recognized experts in the respective fields. It thus contributes to maintaining and increasing technical competence and to ensuring the sustainable development of nuclear technology. A certificate of attendance is released.
Registration Fees
I week or II week: 3500/3800euros (early/late registrations)
I & II week: 6000/6500 euros (early/late registrations)
Course's Subjects (for details, click here for the first week and here for the second week)
Licensing Framework and Best Estimate Plus Uncertainty |
A – Fundamentals of Safety Assessment B – IAEA Standards and BEPU C – From Appendix K to CSAU and EMDAP D – Results and Recommendations of International OECD/CSNI BEPU Programs E – Relevant Aspects for BEPU Applications in SAR F – Applicability of IAEA Safety Standards for New Generation Reactors and SMRs |
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Best Estimate System Thermal-Hydraulic Codes and V&V |
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Scaling Issue and Scaling Analysis |
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Sensitivity Analysis |
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Uncertainty Analysis |
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Procedures for a Consistent Application of a BEPU Method in Licensing |
A – SCCRED Methodology for BEPU application in a NPP Licensing Process B – The Qualification Process of a NPP Evaluation Model in SCCRED |
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BEPU Applications in Safety Analysis and Licensing Framework |
A – Role and Importance of BEPU Safety Analysis in Licensing of LWRs B – Westinghouse, AREVA, GEH BEPU Large Break LOCA Methodologies C – BEPU applications for VVER D – Full BEPU Application for Chapter 15 of Atucha-2 NPP E – BEPU Implementation for Spent Nuclear Fuel Characterisation F – I&C, Defense-In-Depth and Diversity and Safety Assessment |
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Reactor Physics and Fuel Performance Experiments and Uncertainty Analysis |
A – International Reactor Physics Experiment Evaluation B – Uncertainties in Reactor Physics C – International Fuel Performance Experiments (IFPE) database D – Uncertainty Quantification in Nuclear Fuel Behavior Modelling and Simulation |
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Multi-Physics Multi-Scale Simulations and BEPU |
A – Multi-Physics and Multi-Scale Simulation Tool B – Uncertainty Propagation in Coupled Code Systems C – Uncertainty Quantification In Severe Accident Analysis D – BEPU Methods using CFD Codes E – Current Issues in Digital I&C System Licensing Around the World Impacting on Safety Margins and Economics |