Analysis of reactivity determination methods in the subcritical experiment Yalina

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 554, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 374-383

  Persson, Carl Magnus ^a   Seltborg, Per ^a   Åhlander, Alexandra ^a   Gudowski, Waclaw ^a   Stummer, Thomas ^b   Kiyavitskaya, Hanna ^c   Bournos, Victor ^c   Fokov, Yurij ^c   Serafimovich, Ivan ^c   Chigrinov, Sergey ^c  

^a ALBANOVA UNIVERSITY CENTER   (Sweden)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c JOINT INSTITUTE FOR POWER AND NUCLEAR RESEARCH SOSNY   (Belarus)

Author keywords

ADS; MCNP; Reactivity determination; Subcritical; Yalina

Indexed keywords

ADS; MCNP; REACTIVITY DETERMINATION; SUBCRITICAL; YALINA;

CONDITION MONITORING; DATA ACQUISITION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SAFETY FACTOR; STATISTICAL METHODS;

REACTIVITY (NUCLEAR);

EID: 27844541305     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2005.07.058     Document Type: Article

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