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Members are devoted to applying nuclear science and engineering technologies involving isotopes, radiation applications, and associated equipment in scientific research, development, and industrial processes. Their interests lie primarily in education, industrial uses, biology, medicine, and health physics. Division committees include Analytical Applications of Isotopes and Radiation, Biology and Medicine, Radiation Applications, Radiation Sources and Detection, and Thermal Power Sources.
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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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Argonne’s METL gears up to test more sodium fast reactor components
Argonne National Laboratory has successfully swapped out an aging cold trap in the sodium test loop called METL (Mechanisms Engineering Test Loop), the Department of Energy announced April 23. The upgrade is the first of its kind in the United States in more than 30 years, according to the DOE, and will help test components and operations for the sodium-cooled fast reactors being developed now.
T. J. Hoffman, L. M. Petrie, N. F. Landers
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 66 | Number 1 | April 1978 | Pages 60-66
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A15187
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
In this paper, a Monte Carlo method for the calculation of the change in the neutron multiplication factor of a reactor due to cross-section perturbations is developed. Although similar to the perturbation source method developed by Matthes, this method is not limited to problems in which first-order perturbation theory is applicable. This method has been implemented in the KENO computer code and applied to a variety of problems. The results of these calculations are presented in this paper. This approach should prove useful in the solution of problems in which other Monte Carlo methods, such as Matthes' first-order perturbation source method and correlated sampling, fail.
