First ciemat measurements of the MUSE-4 kinetic response

Proceedings of the PHYSOR 2002 - International Conference on the New Frontiers of Nuclear Technology : Reactor Physics, Safety and High-Performance Computing - The ANS 2002 RPD Topical Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages

  Villamarin D ^a   Gonzalez Romero E ^a  

^a CIEMAT   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICALITY (NUCLEAR FISSION); FAST REACTORS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NEUTRON SOURCES; NEUTRONS; PULSE REPETITION RATE;

MEASUREMENTS OF; PULSED NEUTRON SOURCES; REGION OF INTEREST; REPETITION RATE; SPALLATION TARGETS; SUBCRITICAL ASSEMBLY; SUBCRITICALITY LEVEL; TIME EVOLUTIONS;

PARTICLE ACCELERATOR ACCESSORIES;

EID: 4944267141     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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