Neutron Fluctuations: A Treatise on the Physics of Branching Processes
Publisher: Elsevier Science | ISBN: 0080450644 | edition 2007 | PDF | 360 pages | 3,1 mb
In the second part of the book, the theory is applied to the description of the neutron fluctuations in nuclear reactor cores as well as in small samples of fissile material. The question of how to extract information about the system under study is discussed. In particular the measurement of the reactivity of subcritical cores, driven with various Poisson and non-Poisson (pulsed) sources, and the identification of fissile material samples, is illustrated.
