Overcoming the challenges of Monte Carlo depletion: Application to a material-testing reactor with the MCS code |
Dos, Vutheam
(Department of Nuclear Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology)
Lee, Hyunsuk (Department of Nuclear Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology) Jo, Yunki (Department of Nuclear Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology) Lemaire, Matthieu (Department of Nuclear Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology) Kim, Wonkyeong (Department of Nuclear Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology) Choi, Sooyoung (Department of Nuclear Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology) Zhang, Peng (Department of Nuclear Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology) Lee, Deokjung (Department of Nuclear Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology) |
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