Evaluation and use of the prompt fission neutron spectrum and spectra covariance matrices in criticality and shielding

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

Volumn 610, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 540-552

  Kodeli, Ivan ^a   Trkov, Andrej ^a   Capote, Roberto ^b   Nagaya, Yasunobu ^c   Maslov, Vladimir ^d  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^c JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

Covariance; Effective multiplication factor; Fission spectrum; Sensitivity; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE MATRICES; CRITICAL EXPERIMENT; DETECTOR RESPONSE; DIFFERENTIAL SPECTRA; EFFECTIVE MULTIPLICATION FACTOR; FISSION NEUTRON SPECTRUMS; FISSION NEUTRONS; FISSION SPECTRUM; JENDL-3.3; NORMALISATION; SENSITIVITY COEFFICIENT; SENSITIVITY PROFILES; THERMAL REACTORS;

BENCHMARKING; COVARIANCE MATRIX; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PLUTONIUM; RADIATION PROTECTION; SHIELDING;

REACTOR SHIELDING;

EID: 72049125638     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2009.08.076     Document Type: Article

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