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Number 1

Table of Contents
Nuclear Energy Technology (R. K. Osborn)
Economic and Environmental Impacts of a U.S. Nuclear Moratorium, 1985–2010 (Wen S. Chern)
Thermohydraulics of Two-Phase Systems for Industrial Design and Nuclear Engineering (W. T. Sha)
Structural Materials in Nuclear Power Systems (Donald R. Olander)
Neutron-Photon Multigroup Cross Sections for Neutron Energies 60 MeV (R. G. Alsmiller)
General Subject Index

Effect of Debris Bed Pressure, Particle Size, and Distribution on Degraded Nuclear Reactor Core Coolability
D. Squarer, A. T. Pieczynski, L. E. Hochreiter
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 1 | January 1982 | Pages 2-13
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A21399
Leaching of Radionuclides from a Cement Composite Incorporating Evaporator Concentrates Generated at a Pressurized Water Reactor Nuclear Power Plant
Hideo Matsuzuru, Noboru Moriyama
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 1 | January 1982 | Pages 14-25
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A21400
On the Fundamental Continuity Equation for Material Transport in Fractured Media and Retention Factor for a System of Joints
Nimai C. Mukhopadhyay, Jörg Hadermann
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 1 | January 1982 | Pages 26-31
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A21401
A Coordinate Transformation Method for Thermohydraulics in Irregular Three-Dimensional Geometries
A. K. Agrawal, R. S. Peckover
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 1 | January 1982 | Pages 32-46
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A21402
Physics of the Reactor Meltdown Accident
Bernard L. Cohen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 1 | January 1982 | Pages 47-60
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A21403
Application of Neutron Count Moment Analysis Method to Passive Assay
N. Shenhav, Y. Segal, A. Notea
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 1 | January 1982 | Pages 61-73
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A21404
Average Beta-Ray Energies of Short-Lived Fission Products
K. Aleklett, G. Rudstam
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 1 | January 1982 | Pages 74-91
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A21405
Nuclear Excitation by Gamma Rays from Cobalt-60
Yoshihisa Watanabe, Takeshi Mukoyama
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 1 | January 1982 | Pages 92-100
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A21406
Unfolding Methods with the Prior Knowledge and Integral Data of Neutron Spectrum
Hiroshi Sekimoto, Nobuhiro Yamamuro
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 1 | January 1982 | Pages 101-112
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A21407
New Singular Integral Equations in Experimental Neutron Rethermalization
Nassar H. S. Haidar
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 1 | January 1982 | Pages 113-123
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A21408
Kinetics and Energetics of Muon-Catalyzed Deuterium-Tritium Fusion
S. G. Lie, A. A. Harms
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 1 | January 1982 | Pages 124-129
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A21409
Multigroup Transfer Matrices for Charged-Particle and Neutron-Induced Reactions. Part I: The General Two-Body Interaction
Sterrett T. Perkins
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 1 | January 1982 | Pages 130-138
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A21410
Geometrical Splitting in Monte Carlo
A. Dubi, T. Elperin, Donald J. Dudziak
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 1 | January 1982 | Pages 139-161
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A21411
Continuous-Energy Adjoint Monte Carlo Theory of Coupled Continuum/Discrete Radiation Transport
John A. Halbleib, Sr.
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 1 | January 1982 | Pages 162-171
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A21412
Zero Variance Biasing Schemes for Monte Carlo Calculations of Neutron and Radiation Transport Problems
S. R. Dwivedi
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 1 | January 1982 | Pages 172-178
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A21413
Asymptotic Frequency Behavior of the Two-Detector Cross Power Spectral Density Function for a Propagating Perturbation of Moderator Density
Mikdam Saleh, R. A. Danofsky, R. A. Hendrickson
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 1 | January 1982 | Pages 179-184
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A21414
A New Method for the Hydrogen Isotope Exchange Reaction in a Hydrophobic Catalyst Bed
Yamato Asakura, Makoto Kikuchi, Hideo Yusa
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 1 | January 1982 | Pages 184-189
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A21415
The Radiative Capture Yield of Thorium-232 from 100 to 4000 eV
R. B. Perez, G. de Saussure, R. L. Macklin, J. Halperin, N. W. Hill
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 1 | January 1982 | Pages 189-198
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A21416
A Double Error Mode Extrapolation Procedure
D. R. Vondy, T. B. Fowler
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 1 | January 1982 | Pages 198-201
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A21417

Number 2

Table of Contents

Neutron Wave Propagation in Heterogeneous Media and the Interpretation of Neutron Noise in Boiling Water Reactors
F. C. Difilippo
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 2 | February 1982 | Pages 211-217
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A21425
Neutron Wave Propagation Across a Temperature Discontinuity—Multigroup Approach
Ashok Sadhwani, Ashok Kumar, L. S. Kothari
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 2 | February 1982 | Pages 218-229
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A21426
Evaluation of AMPX-KENO Benchmark Calculations for High-Density Spent Fuel Storage Racks
Stanley E. Turner, Marva K. Gurley
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 2 | February 1982 | Pages 230-237
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A21427
Six-Group Representation of the Energy Spectra of Delayed Neutrons from Fission
G. Rudstam
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 2 | February 1982 | Pages 238-255
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A21428
Elastic and Inelastic Neutron Cross Sections for Boron-10 and Boron-11
S. G. Glendinning, S. El-Kadi, C. E. Nelson, R. S. Pedroni, F. O. Purser, R. L. Walter, A. G. Beyerle, C. R. Gould, L. W. Seagondollar, P. Thambidurai
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 2 | February 1982 | Pages 256-262
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A21429
Uranium-238 Resonance Self-Indication Capture Measurements
Robert C. Block, Donald R. Harris, Si Hwan Kim, Katsuhei Kobayashi
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 2 | February 1982 | Pages 263-281
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A21430
Measurement of the ²³⁵U Neutron-Induced Fission Cross Section at 14.1 MeV
Oren A. Wasson, Allan D. Carlson, Kenneth C. Duvall
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 2 | February 1982 | Pages 282-303
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A21431
Air Bubble Oscillation Frequencies in Boiling Water Reactor Pressure Suppression Pools
Brian E. Foody, Peter W. Huber
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 2 | February 1982 | Pages 304-312
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A21432
Nuclear Material Inventory Estimation in a Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Facility
John E. Bennett, Adolph L. Beyerlein
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 2 | February 1982 | Pages 313-321
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A21433
Vectorization for Solving the Neutron Diffusion Equation—Some Numerical Experiments
Misako Ishiguro, Yuji Koshi
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 2 | February 1982 | Pages 322-328
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A21434
Anisotropy in the Scattering of Thermal Neutrons in Crystalline Moderators—Beryllium Oxide
A. N. Verma, Balesh Verma, Feroz Ahmed, L. S. Kothari
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 2 | February 1982 | Pages 329-333
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A21435
Point Kernel Calculations of Skyshine Exposure Rates
M. L. Roseberry, J. Kenneth Shultis
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 2 | February 1982 | Pages 334-338
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A21436
The Reactivity Worth of Protactinium-233 Inferred from Measurements
Louis B. Freeman, Herbert C. Hecker
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 2 | February 1982 | Pages 338-341
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A21437

Number 3

Table of Contents

Development of Scaling Requirements for Natural Convection Liquid-Metal Fast Breeder Reactor Shutdown Heat Removal Test Facilities
Michael P. Heisler
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 3 | March 1982 | Pages 347-359
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A19819
Penetration Through Shielding Materials of Secondary Neutrons and Photons Generated by 52-MeV Protons
Yoshitomo Uwamino, Takashi Nakamura, Kazuo Shin
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 3 | March 1982 | Pages 360-369
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A19820
A Study of the Neutron Noise Transmission Characteristics of Nonmultiplying Media in Liquid-Metal Fast Breeder Reactors by Neutron Wave Propagation Technique
T. M. John, C. P. Reddy, Om Pal Singh
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 3 | March 1982 | Pages 370-378
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A19821
Delayed Neutron Yields from Fission of Uranium-233, Neptunium-237, Plutonium-238, -240, -241, and Americium-241
G. Benedetti, A. Cesana, V. Sangiust, M. Terrani, G. Sandrelli
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 3 | March 1982 | Pages 379-387
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A19822
Neutron Elastic and Inelastic Scattering Cross Sections for Carbon-13 Between 10 and 18 MeV
J. H. Davè, C. R. Gould, L. W. Seagondollar, C. R. Howell, R. S. Pedroni, F. O. Purser, R. L. Walter
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 3 | March 1982 | Pages 388-392
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A19823
Measurement of the Neutron-Induced Fission Cross Section of Neptunium-237 Relative to Uranium-235 from 20 keV to 30 MeV
J. W. Behrens, J. C. Browne, J. C. Walden
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 3 | March 1982 | Pages 393-400
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A19824
An Accurate Background Cross-Section Method for Reactor Cell Homogenization
Yung-An Chao, Aquilino Senra Martinez
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 3 | March 1982 | Pages 401-406
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A19825
The Perturbation Produced in the Neutron Spectrum of an Assembly by a Spectrometer
Hiroshi Sekimoto, Masaya Ohtsuka, Nobuhiro Yamamuro
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 3 | March 1982 | Pages 407-411
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A19826
Time-Dependent Surface Angular Flux for a Semi-Infinite Medium with Specular Reflection
B. D. Ganapol
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 3 | March 1982 | Pages 412-415
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A19827
Fuel-Flow Dynamics of Fission-Fusion Symbiotic Systems
G. Pantis
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 3 | March 1982 | Pages 416-423
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A19828
Predicting the Cost of Splitting in Monte Carlo Particle Transport
Raymond J. Juzaitis
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 3 | March 1982 | Pages 424-447
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A19829
Neutron-Photon Multigroup Cross Sections for Neutron Energies 400 MeV
R. G. Alsmiller, Jr., J. Barish
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 3 | March 1982 | Pages 448-452
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A19830
Calculated Neutron Production by 190- to 268-MeV Protons in a Water-Cooled Tantalum Target
R. G. Alsmiller, Jr., J. Barish, J. M. Barnes, R. T. Santoro
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 3 | March 1982 | Pages 452-455
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A19831
Yields of Short-Lived Fission Products of Thermal-Neutron Fission of Thorium-229
J. K. Dickens, J. W. McConnell, K. J. Northcutt
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 3 | March 1982 | Pages 455-461
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A19832
Rational Chebyshev Approximations to the Bickley Functions
D. Davierwalla
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 3 | March 1982 | Pages 461-469
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A19833
The Calculation of the Chord Distribution Function
D. Kwiat
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 3 | March 1982 | Pages 469-473
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE80-469
Estimating the Eigenvalue of the Dominant Error Vector of an Iteration Process
D. R. Vondy, T. B. Fowler
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 3 | March 1982 | Pages 473-476
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A19835
A Theory of Space-Time Reactor Kinetics
Yung-An Chao
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 3 | March 1982 | Pages 476-480
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A19836

Number 4

Table of Contents
A Review of Neutron Transport Approximations (R. Sanchez, N. J. McCormick)

Fundamental Theory of the Direct Integration Method for Solving the Steady-State Integral Transport Equation for Radiation Shielding Calculation
Kiyoshi Takeuchi, Nobuo Sasamoto
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 4 | April 1982 | Pages 536-553
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A18968
Direct Integration Method for Solving the Neutron Transport Equation in Three-Dimensional Geometry
Nobuo Sasamoto, Kiyoshi Takeuchi
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 4 | April 1982 | Pages 554-569
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A18969
Accurate Evaluation of Multigroup Transfer Cross Sections and Their Legendre Coefficients
Kou-John Hong, J. Kenneth Shultis
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 4 | April 1982 | Pages 570-578
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A18970
Multigroup Transfer Matrices for Charged-Particle and Neutron-Induced Reactions. Part II: An Analytic Integration of the Inner Integral
S. T. Perkins, P. C. Giles
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 4 | April 1982 | Pages 579-585
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A18971
Calculated Neutron and Gamma-Ray Energy Spectra from 14-MeV Neutrons Streaming Through an Iron Duct: Comparison with Experiment
R. T. Santoro, R. G. Alsmiller, Jr., J. M. Barnes, G. T. Chapman, J. S. Tang
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 4 | April 1982 | Pages 586-602
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A18972
A Measurement of the Average Number of Prompt Neutrons from Spontaneous Fission of Californium-252
R. R. Spencer, R. Gwin, R. Ingle
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 4 | April 1982 | Pages 603-629
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A18973
Fast Neutron Capture Cross Sections and Related Gamma-Ray Spectra of Niobium-93, Rhodium-103, and Tantalum-181
G. Reffo, F. Fabbri, K. Wisshak, F. Käppeler
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 4 | April 1982 | Pages 630-647
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A18974
Multiregion Neutronics Model Based on Coarse Mesh Nodal Coupling Method for Transient Analyses of Boiling Water Reactors
Hiroshi Motoda, Tamotsu Hayase, Yasunori Bessho, Kanji Kato
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 4 | April 1982 | Pages 648-666
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A18975
Experimental Determination of Sodium Evaporation Rates
W. Schütz, H. Sauter
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 4 | April 1982 | Pages 667-672
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A18976
Sodium Boiling Pattern in Porous Blockages
D. Droste, H. M. Kottowski
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 4 | April 1982 | Pages 673-688
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A18977
Radiation-Enhanced Saline Leaching of Silicate Glasses
William Primak
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 4 | April 1982 | Pages 689-699
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A18978
Comparative Analysis of Integrated and Nonintegrated Fusion and Fission Energy Systems
K. F. Schoepf, M. Heindler, A. A. Harms
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 4 | April 1982 | Pages 700-710
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A18979
Spatial Convergence Properties of the Diamond Difference Method in x,y Geometry
Edward W. Larsen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 4 | April 1982 | Pages 710-713
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A18980
Numerical Development and Investigation of the Factorized Kernel Approach for Solving Multidimensional Neutron Transport Problems
W. A. Wassef
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 4 | April 1982 | Pages 714-720
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A18981
A Self-Powered Neutron Detector with a Fissile Emitter
Helmuth Boeck
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 4 | April 1982 | Pages 720-723
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A18982