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ORIGINAL PAPER

Reliable Method for Fission Source Convergence of Monte Carlo Criticality Calculation with Wielandt's Method

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Pages 99-107 | Received 16 Sep 2003, Accepted 23 Nov 2003, Published online: 07 Feb 2012

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