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No impact from Savannah River radioactive wasps
The news is abuzz with recent news stories about four radioactive wasp nests found at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina. The site has been undergoing cleanup operations since the 1990s related to the production of plutonium and tritium for defense purposes during the Cold War. Cleanup activities are expected to continue into the 2060s.
Yigal Ronen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 96 | Number 2 | June 1987 | Pages 153-158
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE87-A16375
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The “forward method” for sensitivity analysis was applied for high-order problems. The problems considered are those in which the state vector and the responses are nonlinear functions of the input parameters and/ or the modeling parameters. High-order sensitivities were obtained for both the homogeneous and inhomogeneous cases. For the inhomogeneous cases the usefulness of the “Green’s vector” was demonstrated. An example from reactor theory is presented.