Criticality accident alarm system modeling with SCALE

American Nuclear Society - International Conference on Mathematics, Computational Methods and Reactor Physics 2009, M and C 2009

Volumn 5, Issue , 2009, Pages 3216-3230

  Peplow, Douglas E ^a   Petrie Jr , Lester M ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alarm system; Criticality; Variance reduction

Indexed keywords

CRITICALITY; CRITICALITY ACCIDENTS; CRITICALITY CALCULATIONS; MODELING CAPABILITIES; RADIATION TRANSPORT; RADIATION TRANSPORT CODES; VARIANCE REDUCTIONS;

ACCIDENTS; CALCULATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CRITICALITY (NUCLEAR FISSION); RADIATION PROTECTION; REACTOR SHIELDING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALARM SYSTEMS;

EID: 74949109302     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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