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Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 584256, 8 pages
doi:10.1155/2011/584256
Research Article

Calculation of the Effective Delayed Neutron Fraction by Deterministic and Monte Carlo Methods

M. Carta,1 S. Dulla,2 V. Peluso,3 P. Ravetto,2 and G. Bianchini1

1ENEA, C.R. Casaccia, Via Anguillarese 301, 00123 Roma, Italy
2Dipartimento di Energetica, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy
3ENEA, C.R.E. E. Clementel, Via Martiri di Monte Sole 4, 40129 Bologna, Italy

Received 7 March 2011; Accepted 5 May 2011

Academic Editor: Antonio Alvim

Copyright © 2011 M. Carta et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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