École Nationale Supérieure de
Techniques Avancées

Abstract

This work presents the first pieces of work about the validation of a new Monte-Carlo computing chain. The validation has been made in two stages using two different reference results. The first stage reproduces a purely digital benchmark which has also been done by several other scientific teams to validate their Monte-Carlo code. The small differences in the benchmark between the results of the computation chains lead to the beginning of the validation of OCELOTv2 and the implementation of the first integral tests of the code. The second stage of the internship validates the code using experimental measures made on core fuel in a few nuclear plants. This stage has not yet been finished but the first results for simple configurations yield promising results.