Progress in Nuclear Energy

Volume 34 Number 1 1999

Contents

M. Berta and G. Por 1 The effect of the matrix condition number on the

estimate of core barrel motion

R. E. Uhrig and L. H. Tsoukalas 13 Soft computing technologies in nuclear engineering

applications

R. P. Pazos and M. T. de Vilhena 77 Convergence of the LTS(N) method: approach of Co

semigroups

N. S. Garis and 1. Pazsit 87 Control rod localisation with neural networks using

a complex transfer function

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Progress in Nuclear Energy
The international Review Journal covering all aspects of Nuclear Energy

Volume 34 Number 2 1999

Contents

J. W. Durkee Jr, J. R. Streetman, 99 3-D Monte Carlo and discrete ordinates void
J. L. Sapir and A. Andiade coefficient analysis for the Los Alamos National
Laboratory Omega West Reactor using MNCP and
THREEDANT

Li Fu, LIIO Zhengpei and Hu Yongming 143 Core failure diagnosis method based on harmonics

synthesis method

Z. U. Koreshi 147 Stochastic simulation of a nuclear reaction driven
chemical and diffusive process in a fusion reactor
blanket

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Progress in Nuclear Energy
Volume 34, Number 3, 1999

Contents

C. W. Mayo 171 Foreword


G. HesseL W. Schmitt, K. Van Dci 173 A neural network approach for acoustic leak
Vorst and F.-P. Weiss monitoring in the VVER-440 pressure vessel head


G. Szappanos, J. L Kiss, G. Por 185 Analysis of measurements made by HELPS loose
and J. M. Kiss part detection system during installation and
operation periods


G. Szappanos and G. Por 195 Basics ideas and realization of completely digitized
loose part detection system HELPS


J. V. Persio 203 Commercial nuclear reactor loose part monitor
setpoints


U. Kunze , 213 Experience with the acoustic leakage monitoring
system ALUES in 17 VVER plants


B. Bechlold and U. Kunze 221 KLJES '95 - The modern diagnostic system for
loose parts monitoring

L. Shi, C. W. Mayo and J. M. Doster 231 Loose-part damage


C. W. Mayo 263 Loose-part mass and energy estimation


L. Shi, C. W. Mayo and J. M. Doster 283 Reactor loose-part activity



B. J. Olina and B. Schlitz 299 Status and operational experience with acoustic
monitoring of reactors primary systems

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Progress in Nuclear Energy
The international Review Journal covering all aspects of Nuclear Energy

Volume 34 Number 4 1999

Special Issue: A Collection of Papers to Commemorate the
70th Birthday of Professor Noel Corngold

Guest Editor; M. M. R. Williams
Contents

M. M.R.Williams 311 Editorial

T. Auerbach, P. Michael, W. Rothenstein, 313 Reminiscences from the Reactor Theory Group at
G. Srikantiah and H. Takahashi Brookhaven National Laboratory

M. M. R. Williams 337 An appreciation of the contributions of Noel Corngold to

nuclear reactor theory

1. Kuscer 355 Multiple small-angle scattering of light
J. D. Lewins 361 Variational principle for pseudo-Markov systems

G. C. Pomraning 377 Large deflection beam transport with screened

Rutherford scattering

R. Accorsi, E. Zio and G. E. Apostolakis 387 Developing utility functions for environmental decision

making

E. W. Larsen 413 The linear Boltzmann equation in optically thick systems

with forward-peaked scattering

N. J. McConnick 425 Unified approach to analytical solutions of three inverse

transport problems

J. J. Duderstadt 431 Graduate education in science and engineering: a time

for reassessment

H. F. McFarlane and M. J. Lineberry 453 An insiders' perspective of fast reactor technology

B. R. Sehgal, R. R. Nourgaliev and 471 Numerical simulation ofdroplet deformation and break-
T. N. Dinh up by Lattice-Boltzmann method

H. Rief and H. Wider 489 Safety considerations in accelerator-driven nuclear

systems

J. Doming 501 "Icicle yes, testicle yes, verticle no!"
J. Doming 507 A comment on runaway particles

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Progress in Nuclear Energy

The international Review Journal covering all aspects of Nuclear Energy

Volume 35 Number 1
Contents
R. T. Acki-oyd, C. R. E. de Oliveira, I On a rigorous resolution of the transport equation into a
A. Zolfaghari and A. J. H. Goddard system of diffusion-like equations

Yu. L. Bolotin, V. V. Bulavin, 65 A simple nonlinear model for pendular chaotic
A. V. Chechkin and V. Yu. Gonchar oscillations of reactor core barrel

D. W. Nigg 79 Some recent trends and progress in the physics and

biophysics of neutron capture therapy

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