Monte Carlo burnup and its uncertainty propagation analyses for VERA depletion benchmarks by McCARD |
Park, Ho Jin
(Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
Lee, Dong Hyuk (Seoul National University) Jeon, Byoung Kyu (University of Michigan) Shim, Hyung Jin (Seoul National University) |
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