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It may seem counterintuitive, but the best time to enhance the ability to support operations and maintenance for a new plant is before construction starts. This is one of many lessons learned by the currently operating nuclear fleet. As construction and startup of many nuclear facilities was completed, it quickly became evident that the ability to efficiently support operations and maintenance was limited. Most of the information necessary to establish and manage procurement of spare and replacement items, maintenance, and configuration of the facilities was unavailable and had to be gathered on a case-by-case, “on-demand” basis. Absence of necessary information and the associated challenges resulted in the need for staff augmentation and multiyear-long projects to develop equipment bills of material and maintenance programs and to perform technical evaluations for the huge quantities of spare and replacement items being requested.
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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