Research reactor benchmarks

Nuclear Science and Engineering

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 145-152

  Ravnik, Matjaž ^a   Jeraj, Robert ^a  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRITICALITY (NUCLEAR FISSION); ERRORS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUCLEAR FUEL ELEMENTS; REACTOR CORES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; URANIUM; ZIRCONIUM COMPOUNDS;

CRITICALITY BENCHMARKS; RESEARCH REACTOR BENCHMARKS; URANIUM ZIRCONIUM HYDRIDE FUEL;

RESEARCH REACTORS;

EID: 0041693771     PISSN: 00295639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NSE03-A2370     Document Type: Article

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