Investigating Region-wise Sensitivities for Nuclear Criticality Safety Validation
- Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (United States); Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Whisper is a criticality safety statistical analysis package that uses the sensitivity profile data developed by MCNP6 for a given application and the covariance files for the nuclear data to determine a baseline Upper-Subcritical-Limit (USL) for a given application [1]. Whisper is designed to give a quantifiable basis for the selection of criticality benchmarks used to determine the appropriate calculational margin.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- 89233218CNA000001
- OSTI ID:
- 1487338
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-18-31601
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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