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Using the Efficient Global Optimization Algorithm to Assist Nuclear Criticality Safety Assessment
Y. Richet, G. Caplin, J. Crevel, D. Ginsbourger, V. Picheny
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 175 | Number 1 | September 2013 | Pages 1-18
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE11-116
Neutron Interactions with 3He Revisited—II: Nonelastic Cross Sections in the Mega-Electron-Volt Range
M. Drosg, P. W. Lisowski
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 175 | Number 1 | September 2013 | Pages 19-27
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE12-7
Uncertainty Quantification of Few-Group Diffusion Theory Constants Generated by the B1 Theory-Augmented Monte Carlo Method
Ho Jin Park, Hyung Jin Shim, Han Gyu Joo, Chang Hyo Kim
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 175 | Number 1 | September 2013 | Pages 28-43
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE12-25
Nonspherical Perturbations of Spherical Geometries in Transport Theory
Jeffrey A. Favorite
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 175 | Number 1 | September 2013 | Pages 44-69
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE12-17
A Local Incident Flux Response Expansion Transport Method for Coupling to the Diffusion Method in Cylindrical Geometry
Dingkang Zhang, Farzad Rahnema, Abderrafi M. Ougouag
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 175 | Number 1 | September 2013 | Pages 70-80
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE12-61
Evaluation and Uncertainty Quantification of Prompt Fission Neutron Spectra of Uranium and Plutonium Isotopes
M. E. Rising, P. Talou, T. Kawano, A. K. Prinja
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 175 | Number 1 | September 2013 | Pages 81-93
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE12-34
Dynamic Monte Carlo Method for Nuclear Reactor Kinetics Calculations
Bart L. Sjenitzer, J. Eduard Hoogenboom
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 175 | Number 1 | September 2013 | Pages 94-107
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE12-44
Interpretation of the Control Rod Withdrawal Test in the Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Phénix
V. Pascal, G. Prulhière, M. Vanier, B. Fontaine
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 175 | Number 2 | October 2013 | Pages 109-123
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE12-19
Nondestructive Assay Measurements Using the RPI Lead Slowing-Down Spectrometer
B. Becker, A. Weltz, J. A. Kulisek, J. Thompson, N. Thompson, Y. Danon
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 175 | Number 2 | October 2013 | Pages 124-134
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE12-66
Development of a Suppression Method for Deposition of Radioactive Cobalt After Chemical Decontamination: Application of a Ferrite Film Formation Process to an Actual BWR Plant
Hideyuki Hosokawa, Makoto Nagase, Motomasa Fuse, Yutaka Watanabe
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 175 | Number 2 | October 2013 | Pages 135-148
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE12-80
Proliferation Resistant Fuel for Pebble Bed Modular Reactors
Yigal Ronen, Menashe Aboudy, Dror Regev, Erez Gilad
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 175 | Number 2 | October 2013 | Pages 149-156
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE12-84
Effect of Lattice-Level Homogenization and Group Condensation on Calculated Kinetics Parameters of a Natural-Uranium-Fueled Equilibrium CANDU Core
Eleodor Nichita
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 175 | Number 2 | October 2013 | Pages 157-171
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE12-59
Development of an Adaptive Nonintrusive Spectral Technique for Uncertainty Quantification and Application to a Multiphysics Problem
L. Gilli, D. Lathouwers, J. L. Kloosterman, T. H. J. J. van der Hagen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 175 | Number 2 | October 2013 | Pages 172-187
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE12-92
Prompt Fission Neutron Spectrum Uncertainty Propagation Using Polynomial Chaos Expansion
M. E. Rising, A. K. Prinja, P. Talou
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 175 | Number 2 | October 2013 | Pages 188-203
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE12-93
Exact Solutions to the Diffusion Process of Fission Products in the TRISO Fuel Particles of Pebble Bed HTRs: Case Study of 137Cs and 134Cs
Chao Tian, Lifeng Sun, Chao Fang
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 175 | Number 2 | October 2013 | Pages 204-211
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE12-51
Nonlinear Acceleration of a Continuous Finite Element Discretization of the Self-Adjoint Angular Flux Form of the Transport Equation
Richard Sanchez, Cristian Rabiti, Yaqi Wang
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 175 | Number 3 | November 2013 | Pages 213-226
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE12-50
Overlapping Local/Global Iteration Framework for Whole-Core Transport Solution
Nam Zin Cho, Seungsu Yuk, Han Jong Yoo, Sunghwan Yun
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 175 | Number 3 | November 2013 | Pages 227-238
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE12-68
Distributed Resonance Self-Shielding Using the Equivalence Principle
Dimitar Altiparmakov
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 175 | Number 3 | November 2013 | Pages 239-249
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE12-71
Solving Linear Systems with Sparse Gaussian Elimination in the Chebyshev Rational Approximation Method
Maria Pusa, Jaakko Leppänen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 175 | Number 3 | November 2013 | Pages 250-258
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE12-52
Using Generalized Laguerre Polynomials to Compute the Matrix Exponential in Burnup Equations
Ding She, Ang Zhu, Kan Wang
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 175 | Number 3 | November 2013 | Pages 259-265
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE12-48
Improvements in Transport Calculations by the Energy-Dependent Fission Spectra and Subgroup Method for Mutual Self-Shielding
Pietro Mosca, Claude Mounier, Pierre Bellier, Igor Zmijarevic
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 175 | Number 3 | November 2013 | Pages 266-282
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE12-63
Full Core Reactor Analysis: Running Denovo on Jaguar
Joshua J. Jarrell, Thomas M. Evans, Gregory G. Davidson, Andrew T. Godfrey
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 175 | Number 3 | November 2013 | Pages 283-291
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE12-60
Experimental Validation of 3-D Reconstructed Pin Power Distributions in Full-Scale BWR Fuel Assemblies with Partial-Length Rods
Flavio Dante Giust, Peter Grimm, Rakesh Chawla
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 175 | Number 3 | November 2013 | Pages 292-307
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE12-69
Reactivity Loss Validation of High-Burnup PWR Fuels with Pile-Oscillation Experiments in MINERVE
P. Leconte, C. Vaglio-Gaudard, R. Eschbach, M. Antony, J. Di-Salvo, A. Pépino
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 175 | Number 3 | November 2013 | Pages 308-317
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE12-56
Monte Carlo Interpretation of the AMMON/REF Experiment in EOLE for the JHR Reactor Neutron Calculations
C. Vaglio-Gaudard, O. Leray, A. C. Colombier, O. Gueton, J. P. Hudelot, M. Valentini, J. Di Salvo, A. Gruel, J. C. Klein, A. Roche, D. Beretz, B. Geslot, J. M. Girard, C. Jammes, P. Sireta
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 175 | Number 3 | November 2013 | Pages 318-328
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE12-67
Design-Related Studies for the Preliminary Safety Assessment of the Molten Salt Fast Reactor
M. Brovchenko, D. Heuer, E. Merle-Lucotte, M. Allibert, V. Ghetta, A. Laureau, P. Rubiolo
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 175 | Number 3 | November 2013 | Pages 329-339
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE12-70
Neutron Noise Calculations in Hexagonal Geometry and Comparison with Analytical Solutions
Hoai Nam Tran, Christophe Demazière
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 175 | Number 3 | November 2013 | Pages 340-351
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE12-49
Technical Reviewers
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 175 | Number 3 | November 2013 | Pages 352-354
doi.org/10.13182/NSE13-A24511
Volume 175 Author and Subject Indexes
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 175 | Number 3 | November 2013 | Pages 355-356
doi.org/10.13182/NSE13-A24512
