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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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ANS’s M&C 2025 conference is coming up
The International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025) will be taking place April 27–30 in Denver, Colo.
Registration for the meeting is now open. The host hotel— The Westin Denver Downtown—is also taking room reservations.
D. Rochman, W. Zwermann, S. C. van der Marck, A. J. Koning, H. Sjöstrand, P. Helgesson, B. Krzykacz-Hausmann
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 177 | Number 3 | July 2014 | Pages 337-349
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE13-32
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A new and faster Total Monte Carlo (TMC) method for the propagation of nuclear data uncertainties in Monte Carlo nuclear simulations is presented (the fast TMC method). It addresses the main drawback of the original TMC method, namely, the necessary large time multiplication factor compared to a single calculation. With this new method, Monte Carlo simulations can now be accompanied with an uncertainty propagation (other than statistical), with small additional calculation time. The fast TMC method is presented and compared with the TMC and fast GRS methods for criticality and shielding benchmarks and burnup calculations. Finally, to demonstrate the efficiency of the method, uncertainties due to uncertainties in 235,238U, 239Pu, and thermal scattering nuclear data, for the local deposited power in 12.7 million cells, are calculated for a full-size reactor core.
