Conference Proceedings

Thabit Abuqudaira, Pavel Tsvetkov, and Piyush Sabharwall, “Fuel Flow Effects in Thermal Fluidics Considerations within Operational Domains of Molten Salt Reactors,” Proceedings of the 20th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH-20), Washington D.C., USA (2023).

Thabit Abuqudaira, Pavel Tsvetkov, and Piyush Sabharwall, “Neutronics/Thermal-Hydraulics Coupling in Simulation of Advanced Nuclear Reactors,” Proceedings of The International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2023), Niagara Falls, Canada (2023).

James Passmore, Dahvien Dean, and Pavel V. Tsvetkov, “Exploratory Analysis of Parametric Dependencies in Molten Salt Reactor Design Domains,” Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, 129, 843:844, Washington D.C., USA (2023).

Watson D, Gatchalian R D, Hsieh H, Bhat P, Tsvetkov P “SpaceX Falcon Heavy Mass Constraints as Design Driver for Practical Heat Pipe Stirling Micro Reactors,” in Proceedings of Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space (NETS 2023), Idaho Falls, Idaho, United States, May 7-11, 2023.

Journal Articles

Mendoza, M , & Tsvetkov, P V. (2024) An intelligent fault detection and diagnosis monitoring system for reactor operational resilience: Fault
diagnosis. Progress in Nuclear Energy 168 104989-104989.

Gates, J. T., & Tsvetkov, P V. (2024). Testing of fiber optic based sensors for advanced reactors in the Texas A&M University TRIGA reactor.
Annals of Nuclear Energy. 196 110222-110222.

Clarno, K. T., Barlow, J. E., Sawyer, T., Scherr, J , Hearne, J. , & Tsvetkov, P. (2023). Evaluation of SCALE, Serpent, and MCNP for Molten Salt
Reactor applications using the MSRE Benchmark. Annals of Nuclear Energy 194 110092-110092.

McDeavitt, S. M., Wootan, D , Kimber, M., Kirkland, K. V., Ortega, L. H , Perez-Nunez, D., … Woolstenhulme, N. E. (2023). Concept Descriptions
for the VTR Rabbit System and Driver Fuel Test Assemblies. NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING. 197(11 ), 2840-2852.

Weiss, A. G., Aranguren, B, Butt, M. I., Tsvetkov, P. V., Kimber, M. L , & McDeavitt, S. M. (2023). A Data-driven approach to predicting neutron
penetration through media. ANNALS OF NUCLEAR ENERGY. 192 109953-109953.

Weiss, A. G., V. Tsvetkov, P, Hearne, J., Kimber, M. L., Wootan, D. W, & McDeavitt, S. M. (2023). A sensitivity analysis to predict the neutronics
behavior of samples irradiated in the VTR rabbit system. ANNALS OF NUCLEAR ENERGY. 185 109708-109708.

Gatchalian, R , & Tsvetkov, P. V. (2023). Reactor physics analysis of a Source-driven TRIGA configuration in subcritical domain. ANNALS OF
NUCLEAR ENERGY. 186 109787-109787.

Chapters

Tsvetkov, P (2023). Chapter 9 Generation IV: United States. Handbook of Generation JV Nuclear Reactors. 287-301. Elsevier.

Tsvetkov, P (2023). Chapter 4 Gas-cooled Fast Reactors (GFRs). Handbook of Generation IV Nuclear Reactors. 167-172. Elsevier.

Thabit Abuqudaira, Pavel Tsvetkov, and Piyush Sabharwall, “Perspective Chapter: Assessment of Nuclear Sensors and Instrumentation Maturity in Advanced Nuclear Reactors,” Nuclear Fission – From Fundamentals to Applications, IntechOpen (2023).

Miscellaneous

Thabit Abuqudaira, Pavel Tsvetkov, and Piyush Sabharwall, “The Effect of Point Reactor Kinetics Solvers on the Accuracy of Nuclear Reactor Simulations,” Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, 129, 451:454, Washington D.C., USA (2023).