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Yigal Ronen, Dror Regev
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 66 | Number 1 | April 1978 | Pages 124-127
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A15196
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The upper bound estimation method is applied for estimating perturbations in reactor theory calculations. The results of this method are numerically compared with the regular first-order perturbation theory. It is concluded from the comparison that first-order perturbation in the integral formalism gives the best estimate for the changes in eigen-values. For those cases in which first-order perturbation yields low estimates, it is possible to obtain lower and upper bounds by applying both methods. A discussion of the possibility of obtaining a rough estimation to a perturbation without knowing the unperturbed regular and adjoint fluxes is presented and demonstrated with a numerical example.