The experimental determination of the relative abundances and decay constants of delayed neutrons of the IPEN/MB-01 reactor

Proceedings of the PHYSOR 2004: The Physics of Fuel Cycles and Advanced Nuclear Systems - Global Developments

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 285-292

  Dos Santos, Adimir ^a   Diniz, Ricardo ^a   Jerez, Rogerio ^a   Mai, Luiz Antonio ^a   Yamaguchi, Mitsuo ^a   De Andrade e Silva, Graciete S ^a   Mendonça, Arlindo Gilson ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE PESQUISAS ENERGÉTICAS E NUCLEARES   (Brazil)

^b CTMSP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Benchmark; Delayed neutrons; ENDF B VI; Experiments; IPEN MB 01; JENDL3.3; Nuclear data; Reactor kinetics

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; FISSION PRODUCTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEUTRON EMISSION; NEUTRONS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR FUEL ELEMENTS;

DELAYED NEUTRONS; ENDF/B-VI; IPEN/MB-01; JENDL3.3; NUCLEAR DATA; REACTOR KINETICS;

NUCLEAR REACTORS;

EID: 22344449427     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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