SAMS: A sensitivity analysis module for criticality safety analysis using Monte Carlo techniques

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

  Rearden, Bradley T ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; ISOTOPES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

CRITICALITY SAFETY; CROSS SECTION DATA; FISSION CROSS SECTION; KENO V.A; LINEAR PERTURBATION THEORY; MONTE CARLO TECHNIQUES; SENSITIVITY PARAMETERS; SPHERICAL HARMONICS;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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