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Analysis of Measured Total Pressures from Irradiated Solid and Liquid (U,Pu)-Mixed Oxide
W. Breitung
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 108 | Number 1 | May 1991 | Pages 1-15
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A23804
Forward and Adjoint Methods and Applications for Deterministic Electron-Photon Transport
C. R. Drumm, W. C. Fan, J. H. Renken
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 108 | Number 1 | May 1991 | Pages 16-49
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A23805
On the Slowing Down and Transport of Neutrons in an Infinite Medium
Dan G. Cacuci
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 108 | Number 1 | May 1991 | Pages 50-68
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A23806
Temperature Jump: Rigid-Sphere Gas with Arbitrary Gas/Surface Interaction
S. K. Loyalka
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 108 | Number 1 | May 1991 | Pages 69-73
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A23807
Derivatives for the Equations of State of Multicomponent Mixtures for Universal Multicomponent Flow Models
N. I. Kolev
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 108 | Number 1 | May 1991 | Pages 74-87
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A23808
Vapor Explosions in a Stratified Geometry
K. H. Bang, M. L. Corradini
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 108 | Number 1 | May 1991 | Pages 88-108
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A23809
Calculation of Fission Neutron Spectra for Spontaneous Fission of 240Pu, 238Pu and 242Pu
R. L. Walsh, G. Chircu, D. G. Madland
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 108 | Number 1 | May 1991 | Pages 109-115
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A23810
Calculations of the Production Cross Sections of High-Spin Isomeric States in Hafnium
M. B. Chadwick, P. G. Young
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 108 | Number 2 | June 1991 | Pages 117-125
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A23812
Time-Independent Neutronic Analysis of the Chernobyl Accident
P. A. Landeyro, A. Buccafurni
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 108 | Number 2 | June 1991 | Pages 126-149
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A23813
Reactivity Due to Deformation of a Thin Plate in a Critical Reactor
M. L. Williams
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 108 | Number 2 | June 1991 | Pages 150-171
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A23814
Lower Head Creep-Rupture Sensitivity Studies
Sudip S. Dosanjh, Martin Pilch
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 108 | Number 2 | June 1991 | Pages 172-183
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A23815
Decay of Buoyancy-Driven Stratified Layers with Applications to Pressurized Thermal Shock: Reactor Predictions
K. Iyer, T. G. Theofanous
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 108 | Number 2 | June 1991 | Pages 184-197
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A23816
Flooding-Limited Thermal Mixing: The Case of High Froude Number Injection
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 108 | Number 2 | June 1991 | Pages 198-207
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A23817
Probabilities for Lattice Integral Transport
M. Segev, J. Stepanek
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 108 | Number 2 | June 1991 | Pages 208-213
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A23818
Surface Current Double-Heterogeneous Multilayer Multicell Methodology
J. Stepanek , M. Segev
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 108 | Number 3 | July 1991 | Pages 215-229
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A23820
Generalization of the Stamm’ler Method for the Self-Shielding of Resonant Isotopes in Arbitrary Geometries
A. Hébert , G. Marleau
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 108 | Number 3 | July 1991 | Pages 230-239
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE90-57
A Monte Carlo Direction Biasing Approach in the Laboratory System for Isotropic Neutron Center-of-Mass Scattering Including Hydrogen
R. P. Gardner, M. Mickael, M. Oraby, K. Verghese
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 108 | Number 3 | July 1991 | Pages 240-246
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A23822
An Analysis of the Finite Differenced, Even-Parity, Discrete Ordinates Equations in Slab Geometry
Warren F. Miller, Jr.
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 108 | Number 3 | July 1991 | Pages 247-266
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A23823
Angular Parallelization of a Curvilinear Sn Transport Theory Method
Alireza Haghighat
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 108 | Number 3 | July 1991 | Pages 267-277
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A23824
Richardson Extrapolation Applied to Difference Methods for Numerically Solving the Neutron Transport Equation in Spherical Geometry
W. E. Abbott, E. J. Allen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 108 | Number 3 | July 1991 | Pages 278-288
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A23825
Cross-Section Measurements of (n,p) and (n,np + pn + d) Reactions for Some Titanium, Chromium, Iron, Cobalt, Nickel, and Zinc Isotopes Around 14 MeV
M. Viennot, M. Berrada, G. Paic, S. Joly
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 108 | Number 3 | July 1991 | Pages 289-301
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE87-157
Fast Neutron Radiative Capture Cross Sections of Natural Niobium and Molybdenum
Yunshan Mu, Haishan Xu, Zhengyu Xiang, Yexiang Li, Shiming Wang, Jianfeng Liu
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 108 | Number 3 | July 1991 | Pages 302-307
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A23827
Neutron Absorber Effect on Coolant Void Reactivity in a Pressure-Tube-Type Heavy Water Reactor
Yasuki Kowata , Nobuo Fukumura
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 108 | Number 3 | July 1991 | Pages 308-318
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A23828
Thermal Neutron Steady-State Spectra in Light Water Reactor Fuel Assemblies Poisoned with Various Non-l/v Absorbers of Different Concentrations
K. Swaminathan, Satish Chandra, R. C. Jha, S. P. Tewari
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 108 | Number 3 | July 1991 | Pages 319-323
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A23829
The Effect of Random Material Density on Reactor Criticality
G. C. Pomraning
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 108 | Number 4 | August 1991 | Pages 325-330
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A23831
Noise Analysis Method for Monitoring the Moderator Temperature Coefficient of Pressurized Water Reactors: I. Theory
J. R. Thomas, Jr., J. D. Herr, D. S. Wood
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 108 | Number 4 | August 1991 | Pages 331-340
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE90-42
Noise Analysis Method for Monitoring the Moderator Temperature Coefficient of Pressurized Water Reactors: II. Experimental
J. D. Herr, J. R. Thomas, Jr.
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 108 | Number 4 | August 1991 | Pages 341-346
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE90-43
Feedback Theory for Linear Reactivity Transients in a Point Reactor
Takeo Nishigori
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 108 | Number 4 | August 1991 | Pages 347-354
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A23834
Generalized Contributon Response Theory
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 108 | Number 4 | August 1991 | Pages 355-383
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE90-33
The Maximum Entropy Method for Reconstruction of the Pointwise Neutron Flux Distribution in Nodal Methods
Woo Sik Jung, Nam Zin Cho
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 108 | Number 4 | August 1991 | Pages 384-395
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A23836
A New Critical Heat Flux Correlation for Boiling Liquid Metals
H. M. Kottowski, C. Savatteri, W. Hufschmidt
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 108 | Number 4 | August 1991 | Pages 396-413
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A23837
Effective Atomic Numbers for Total Gamma-Ray Interaction and Incoherent Scattering in Some Alloys at 662 keV
Ashok Madiyal, I. Vasudeva Rao, N. Lingappa, K. Siddappa
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 108 | Number 4 | August 1991 | Pages 414-418
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A23838
