222Rn as a tracer for air mass transport characterization at 100-m-high tower in the south-west Spanish coast 

    Grossi, Claudia (Date of defense: 2012-03-30)

    Es los últimos años se han llevado a cabo importantes trabajos de investigación, tomando el gas radón como elemento de evaluación en modelos de transporte atmosférico y así estimar el flujo de partículas. Además la utilización ...

    Comparative study of Final Focus Systems for CLIC and other luminosity enhancement studies for future linear colliders 

    García Morales, Héctor (Date of defense: 2015-01-16)

    The 4th of July 2012 was a milestone date in the history of physics of the last decades. The discovery of the Higgs boson at the ATLAS and CMS experiments thanks to the proton collisions delivered by the LHC not only has ...

    Computational analysis of ion cyclotron resonance frequency heating for JET experiments 

    Gallart Escolà, Dani (Date of defense: 2019-09-27)

    Heating plasmas to a relevant fusion temperature is one of the key aspects of magnetically confined fusion plasmas. Radio frequency (RF) heating with electromagnetic waves in the ion cyclotron range of frequencies (ICRF) ...

    Desarrollo y aplicación de herramientas de valoración de riesgos tecnológicos en centrales nucleares españolas a partir de la técnica de "Análisis Probabilista de Seguridad" 

    Díaz Bayona, Pedro (Date of defense: 2018-04-06)

    The PhD thesis "Desarrollo y aplicación de herramientas de valoración de riesgos tecnológicos en centrales nucleares españolas a partir de la técnica de Análisis Probabilista de Seguridad” results from the research projects ...

    Development of the new AINA code and its application to the Safety Analysis of the European DEMO designs 

    Baeza Pérez, Eduard (Date of defense: 2019-07-22)

    A conclusion that can be drawn from the historical safety analyses developed for tokamaks fusion reactors is that some of the major risks involve incidents in the vacuum vessel. In order to evaluate plasma evolution and ...

    Evaluación de procedimientos desde la perspectiva probabilistica para la seguridad nuclear: aplicación a un reactor Westinghouse PWR 

    Martínez Cid, Manuel (Date of defense: 2012-11-09)

    Probabilistic Risk Assessment for the evaluation of procedures in the Nuclear Safety field. Application to a pressurized water reactor. The studies contained in this PhD are involved in the Nuclear Safety research field. ...

    Evaluation of TH multi-scale coupling methods in BEPU analysis 

    Casamor Vidal, Max (Date of defense: 2022-10-11)

    The combined use of thermal-hydraulics system with sub-channel codes (TH-TH coupling) in transient analysis provides an integrated tool with the capability of modelling in detail both the core thermal-hydraulic conditions ...

    Historical review of fire safety at NPP and application of fire PSA to Westinghouse PWR NPP in the frame of risk-informed decision making by 

    Asamoah, Matthew (Date of defense: 2018-10-05)

    The importance of fire as a potential initiator of multiple-system failures took on a new perspective after the cable-tray fire at Browns Ferry in 1975 The review have shown that the first generation Nuclear Power Plant ...

    IFMIF accelerator facility RAMI analyses in the engineering design phase 

    Bargalló Font, Enric (Date of defense: 2014-05-09)

    The planned International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility (IFMIF) has the mission to test and qualify materials for future fusion reactors. IFMIF will employ the deuteron-lithium stripping reaction to irradiate the ...

    Neutron-induced fission cross section of 240,242Pu 

    Salvador Castiñeira, Paula (Date of defense: 2014-11-07)

    A recent sensitivity analysis done for the new generation of fast reactors [1] has shown the importance of improved cross section data for several actinides. Among them, the neutron-induced fission cross section of 240,242Pu ...

    Optimization of alpha emitter's determination in water. Behavior of radionuclides in water treatment plants 

    Montaña Guerra, Montserrat (Date of defense: 2013-07-24)

    La determinació de l’índex alfa total en aigües és d’interès per ser un dels paràmetres inclòs en la legislació nacional e internacional associada a la qualitat de l’aigua per al consum humà. Aquest índex informa de la ...

    Optimization of field matching in external photon beam radiation therapy 

    Hernández Masgrau, Víctor (Date of defense: 2013-11-07)

    Radiation therapy is one of the main modalities used for treating cancer patients, together with surgery and chemotherapy. Radiotherapy treatments can be carried out with a great variety of devices, but most treatments are ...