Sensitivity and uncertainty analysis capabilities and data in SCALE

Nuclear Technology

Volumn 174, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 236-288

  Rearden, B T ^a   Williams, M L ^a   Jessee, M A ^a   Mueller, D E ^a   Wiarda, D A ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Code and data validation; SCALE; Sensitivity and uncertainty analysis

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; NEUTRON SCATTERING;

APPLICATION SYSTEMS; BENCHMARK EXPERIMENTS; DATA VALIDATION; ENERGY DEPENDENT; NEUTRON CROSS SECTIONS; SCALE; SENSITIVITY AND UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATIONS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 79959254817     PISSN: 00295450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NT174-236     Document Type: Review

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