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At the Idaho National Laboratory Hot Fuel Examination Facility, containment box operator Jake Maupin moves a manipulator arm into position around a pencil-thin nuclear fuel rod. He is preparing for a procedure that he and his colleagues have practiced repeatedly in anticipation of this moment in the hot cell.
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First-order boundary condition perturbation theory is extended to the n'th order in transport theory for eigenvalue problems. In particular, using an unperturbed (known) solution, formalisms are developed to determine the solution to the neutron transport equation when the boundary condition of the system is perturbed. The new method requires the computation of an adjoint Green's function. The numerical solution of this function is discussed. Finally, four numerical examples are provided to verify the validity of the formalisms presented.