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Nuclear Science and Engineering Volume 185, 2017 - Issue 1: Selected Papers from the 2015 Joint International Conference on Mathematics and Computation, Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications, and the Monte Carlo Method (M & C 2015) April 19-23, 2015, Nashville, Tennessee
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Application of a Discretized Phase-Space Approach to the Analysis of Monte Carlo Uncertainties

Thomas M. SuttonBechtel Marine Propulsion Corporation, Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, P.O. Box 1072, Schenectady, New York 12301-1072Correspondence[email protected]
Pages 174-183 | Received 23 Dec 2015, Accepted 22 Apr 2016, Published online: 08 Feb 2017

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