Enhancements to the burnup credit criticality safety analysis sequence in scale

American Nuclear Society - Nuclear Criticality Safety Division Topical Meeting on Realism, Robustness and the Nuclear Renaissance 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 647-656

  Radulescu, G ^a   Gauld, I C ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURN UP; COMPUTER TIME; CONTINUOUS ENERGY; CRITICALITY CALCULATIONS; CRITICALITY SAFETY; CROSS-SECTION LIBRARY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LOADING CURVES; MONTE CARLO; MULTI-GROUP; SPENT FUEL ASSEMBLIES; SPENT NUCLEAR FUELS;

FISSION PRODUCTS; FUEL STORAGE; FUELS; ISOTOPES; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; SECURITY SYSTEMS; SPENT FUELS;

CRITICALITY (NUCLEAR FISSION);

EID: 77951548307     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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