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http://dx.doi.org/10.5516/NET.01.2012.506

ON SOME OUTSTANDING PROBLEMS IN NUCLEAR REACTOR ANALYSIS

Cho, Nam-Zin (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(KAIST))

Publication Information

Nuclear Engineering and Technology / v.44, no.2, 2012 , pp. 207-224 More about this Journal

Abstract

This article discusses selects of some outstanding problems in nuclear reactor analysis, with proposed approaches thereto and numerical test results, as follows: i) multi-group approximation in the transport equation, ii) homogenization based on isolated single-assembly calculation, and iii) critical spectrum in Monte Carlo depletion.

Keywords

Transport Equation; Space-energy-angle Separability; Fine-group Approximation; Few-group Approximation; Angle-dependent Total Cross Section; Inter-assembly Transport Effect; Overlapping Local/Global Iteration; p-CMFD Method; Critical Spectrum Monte Carlo Depletion;

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