The Dynamic Monte Carlo Method for Transient Analysis of Nuclear Reactors

In this thesis a new method for the analysis of power transients in a nuclear reactor is developed, which is more accurate than the present state-of-the-art methods. Transient analysis is important tool when designing nuclear reactors, since they predict the behaviour of a reactor during changing conditions, such as a control-rod movement,...

A zero-variance based scheme for Monte Carlo criticality simulations

The ability of the Monte Carlo method to solve particle transport problems by simulating the particle behaviour makes it a very useful technique in nuclear reactor physics. However, the statistical nature of Monte Carlo implies that there will always be a variance associated with the estimate obtained, making the reduction of this variance,...

Nuclear reactor reload pattern optimization by application of heuristic search and perturbation theoretical methods