Monte Carlo simulation of Feynman-α and Rossi-α techniques for calculation of kinetic parameters of Tehran Research Reactor

Annals of Nuclear Energy

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2140-2145

  Hosseini, Seyed Abolfazl ^a   Vosoughi, Naser ^a   Hosseini, Mohammad ^a  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Feynman ; Kinetic parameters; Monte Carlo; MTR PC; Noise analysis; Rossi

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CODES; CORE CONFIGURATION; DEAD TIME; DETECTOR EFFICIENCY; DETECTOR POSITIONS; EFFECTIVE DELAYED NEUTRON FRACTION; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GENERATION TIME; KEY PARAMETERS; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MTR-PC; NOISE ANALYSIS; PROMPT NEUTRON DECAY CONSTANT; REACTOR POWER; SIMULATION PROCESS; SUB-CRITICAL CONDITION; TEHRAN RESEARCH REACTORS; ZERO-POWER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINETIC PARAMETERS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NEUTRONS; RESEARCH REACTORS;

REACTOR CORES;

EID: 80051787434     PISSN: 03064549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anucene.2011.06.025     Document Type: Article

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