Theory of neutron noise induced by spatially randomly distributed noise sources

Proceedings of the PHYSOR 2000 - ANS International Topical Meeting on Advances in Reactor Physics and Mathematics and Computation into the Next Millennium

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Demaziere Ch ^a   Pazsit I ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

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Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATION THEORY; KINETICS; PRESSURIZED WATER REACTORS; SPECTROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

CORRELATION LENGTHS; LOW FREQUENCY LIMITS; MODERATOR TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENTS; RADIAL POSITION; RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED; SOURCE CORRELATION; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATION;

NEUTRONS;

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