Performing keff validation of as-loaded criticality safety calculations using UNF-ST&DARDS: Sensitivity calculations

Funding

Development of UNF-ST&DARDS criticality analysis capability was accomplished with funding provided by the US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Nuclear Energy (NE). The preparation and presentation of this paper was supported by the Nuclear Criticality Safety Program, funded and managed by the National Nuclear Security Administration for the Department of Energy. * Notice: This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the US Department of Energy (DOE). The US government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the US government retains a nonexclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, worldwide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for US government purposes. DOE will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan (http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan).