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New Mexico holds DOE’s feet to fire in removal of LANL waste
The state of New Mexico is fining the Department of Energy for nearly $16 million, claiming the department has failed to prioritize the removal legacy nuclear waste from Los Alamos National Laboratory for disposal at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, the DOE’s deep geologic repository for defense-related transuranic waste near Carlsbad, N.M.
Yigal Ronen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 72 | Number 1 | October 1979 | Pages 110-113
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE79-A19314
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Perturbation theory is a collection of methods for determining the effect of a known perturbation on a given physical system. Inverse perturbation theory is defined as a collection of methods for determining the nature of the perturbation itself. This Note presents one method related to inverse perturbation theory, where calculated and measured parameters in one system bound the expected measured parameters in a related system subject to the same uncertainties as in the first system. The method is applied to reactor theory problems.