annals of NUCLEAR ENERGY Volume 19 List of Contents and Author Index Executive Editors M.M. R. Williams University of London, U.K. L. E. Weaver Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, U.S.A. © Pergamon Press Oxford - New York - Seoul - Tokyo ANNALS OF NUCLEAR ENERGY EXECUTIVE EDITORS L. E. WEAVER M. M. R. WILLIAMS President, Florida Institute of Technology, University of London, 150 W. University Boulevard, Melbourne, London, U.K. FL 32901-6988, U.S.A. ADVISORY EDITORS F. W. ALBAUGH, Richland, U.S.A. Y. Mort, Tokyo, Japan P. L. Aurr, Ithaca, U.S.A. J. L. MuUNoz-Coso, Valencia, Spain T. D. BEYNON, Birmingham, U.K. R. L. Murray, Raleigh, U.S.A. R. A. BONALUMI, Toronto, Canada D. OKRENT, Los Angeles, U.S.A. F. R. FARMER, Warrington, U.K. R. S. PEASE, Abingdon, U.K. H. FENECH, Santa Barbara, U.S.A. A. M. Perry, Oak Ridge, U.S.A. W. FRANKOWSKI, Warsaw, Poland H. Ruer, /spra, Italy B. D. GANAPOL, Tucson, U.S.A. W. ROTHENSTEIN, Haifa, Israel A. GANDINI, Rome, Italy D. C. 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Sterling prices are definitive. U.S. dollar prices are quoted for convenience only, and are subject to exchange rate fluctuation. Prices include postage and insurance and are subject to change without notice. Back Issues Back issues of all previously published volumes, in both hard copy and on microform are available direct from Pergamon Press offices. Second class postage paid at RAHWAY NJ. Postmaster send address corrections to Pergamon Press Inc., 660 White Plains Road, Tarrytown, NY 10591-5153, U.S.A. Published monthly. Copyright © 1992 Pergamon Press Ltd LIST OF CONTENTS NUMBER 1 N. MORISHIMA Complete modeling of multidimensional noise as a multivariate autoregressive process—II. Application to reactor noise ZBIGNIEW WEISS 11 A closed form solution of the neutron evacuation problem from a purely absorbing sphere T. D. BEYNON and A. H. DHABA’AN 17 Impact of a limiter on the tritium breeding and nuclear heating in a compact Tokamak reactor T. J. DOWNAR 27 Depletion perturbation theory for burnup dependent microscopic cross sections FEYZI INANC Coefficients of second order spherical harmonic equations using automatic generation Book Reviews Current Papers in Nuclear Energy Guidelines for the Preparation of Typescripts for Direct Reproduction NUMBER 2 M. Nasr and H. ROUSHDY 59 Generalization of the Livolant-Jeanpierre method of resonance self-shielding K. W. BURN 65 Complete optimization of space/energy cell import- ances with the DSA cell importance model Technical Notes Y. GOTOH 99 Application of symmetries to response matrix of a node with an absorber rod J. L. KLOOSTERMAN Gamma ray buildup factor calculations for iron by the discrete ordinates code XSDRNPM-S Current Papers in Nuclear Energy Guidelines for the Preparation of Typescripts for Direct Reproduction iii iv Volume Contents NUMBER 3 S. ANTONOV, M. DRENSKA, 119 Measurement of neutron leakage from a fluorine— K. ILIEVA, TS. PANTELEEV, lithium—beryllium sphere with a central 14MeV O. PENCHEV, I. PENEV, I. POPOVA, source R. RADEV and L. STOEVA R. B. PEREZ, P. J. OTADUY and 123 Nonlinear closed-loop control theory M. ABDALLA J. Y. CHUNG and K. J. LEE 145 Analysis of colloid transport and colloidal size effect using filtration theory JANOS VALKO 155 In-core generated temperature fluctuations and boiling detection in pressurized water reactors R. OFEK and A. TSECHANSKI 169 Contributions of the ’Li(n, n’t)*He secondary reac- tions to tritium production in ’Li Technical Note 181 Analysis of *’Th(n, 2n) reaction data V. M. MASLOV 185 Corrigendum I Guidelines for the Preparation of Typescripts for Direct Reproduction NUMBER 4 A. JEHOUANI, J. C. NIMAL and 187 Iterative solution for the neutron slowing-down P. REuss equation in homogeneous media A. JEHOUANI, J. C. NIMAL and 195 Comparison of mutual shielding and self-shielding P. REUSS powers of *°U, 7*U, Pu and “°Pu S. V. Guru and D. K. WEHE 203 Instantaneous flux measurements using the back- ground signal of the rhodium self-powered neutron detector 217 Calculated (a, n) neutron yields produced by **PuO, S. CROFT particles suspended in water J. L. MUNoz-Coso, G. VERDU 223 Dynamic reconstruction and Lyapunov exponents and C. PEREIRA from time series data in boiling water reactors. Application to B.W.R. stability analysis Volume Contents Technical Notes K. HASHIMOTO, A. TATEMATSU, 237 Interpretation of control rod interaction effect on the K. NISHINA and T. SHIBATA basis of modal approach Y. OKA and K. KATAOKA 243 Conceptual design of a fast breeder reactor cooled by supercritical steam Current Papers in Nuclear Energy Guidelines for the Preparation of Typescripts for Direct Reproduction NUMBER 5 P. K. SARKAR and M. A. PRASAD 253 Variance reduction in Monte-Carlo radiation trans- port using antithetic variates A. GOMEZ, R. WALDMAN and 267 Measurement of power in research reactors using the E. LAGGIARD neutron noise technique TRAN DINH TRI 287 A new algorithm for recursive estimation of ARMA parameters in reactor noise analysis IMRE PAZSIT Dynamic transfer function calculations for core diagnostics Guidelines for the Preparation of Typescripts for Direct Reproduction NUMBER 6 G. Di Marco and A. PASQUINI 313 Safety aspects of computer systems in power plants S. B. DEGWEKER and M. SRINIVASAN 319 Passive neutron assay: some theoretical results TRAN DINH TRI 34] Generalization of the signal transmission path method for ARMA model in reactor noise analysis CHAE YONG YANG and NAM ZIN CHO 347 Expansion methods for finding nonlinear stability domains of nuclear reactor models Guidelines for the Preparation of Typescripts for Direct Reproduction vi Volume Contents NUMBER 7 S. R. PARANJPE, O. P. SINGH and 369 Influence of a positive sodium void coefficient of R. HARISH reactivity on the consequences of transient overpower and loss-of-flow accidents in a medium-sized fast reactor T. OHNISHI 377 A quantitative relation between nuclear energy information released by the newsmedia and resulting public opinions T. OHNISHI 381 A method to forecast quantitative variables relating to nuclear public acceptance G. DE SAUSSURE>x, N. M. LARSON, 393 Multilevel resonance analysis of *Co neutron trans- J. A. HARVEY and N. W. HILL mission measurements J.S. CASSELL and M. M. R. WILLIAMS 403 Discrete eigenvalues of the one-speed transport equation for asymmetric scattering Technical Note G. F. THOMAS 409 Evolution of the isotopic in CANDU™ moderator systems and in the thermal neutron activation of helium-3 Letter to the Editors JOHN L. ROWLANDS 413 Solid state effects on Doppler broadening of **U resonances in UO, 419 Current Papers in Nuclear Energy I Guidelines for the Preparation of Typescripts for Direct Reproduction NUMBER 8 H. CHATANI and I. KIMURA 425 Measurement of the *’Th(n, 2n)”'Th reaction cross section with 14.5 MeV neutrons H. SEKIMOTO and Y. ANMO 431 A neutronic study on the concept of using a fast reactor core for high thermal flux reactors I. I. BASHTER 441 Determination of gamma-ray relaxation lengths for disc collimated beam and infinite plane monodirec- tional sources in different concrete shields S. CROFT 451 The (a,n) neutron yield from pure **PuO, Volume Contents Vii JONG TAE JEONG and 459 A single continuum approximation of the solute KUN JAI LEE transport in fractured porous media Technical Notes M. Feiz and A. F. ROHACH 471 Determination of the expansion coefficients of a 1-D multigroup diffusion nodal model M. SRINIVASAN, K. SUBBA RAO 473 A TCF approach to the criticality aspects of fissile and K. CHANDRAMOLESHWAR solution systems Letter to the Editors B. STROHMAIER 477 Status of the evaluated excitation function for the neutron-dosimetry reaction “Nb(n, n’)”"Nb 479 Current Papers in Nuclear Energy I Guidelines for the Preparation of Typescripts for Direct Reproduction NUMBER 9 KENGO HASHIMOTO 483 Formulation of space-dependent ratios of calculated to experimental values for nuclear characteristics in spatially decoupled cores S. T. KHERICHA, A. F. ROHACH 495 Development of two-energy group, one-dimensional, and R. A. DANOFSKY frequency-dependent detector adjoint functions based on the nodal method I. PLecas, A. Peric and 507 The migration Cs-137 and Co-60 through cemen- A. KOSTADINOVIC titious barriers applicable to radioactive waste conditioning YOUNG Ho PARK and NAM ZIN CHO 513 A compensator design controlling neutron flux distri- bution via observer theory ATTILA RACZ 527 On the estimation of a small reactivity change in critical reactors by Kalman filtering technique ORION DE O. SILVA, 539 A PC visual catalogue for data in ENDF format R. PAVIOTTI CORCUERA, P. A. FERREIRA and M. DE MORAES CUNHA Vili Volume Contents R. PAVIOTTI CORCUERA, 545 A radioactive decay gamma-ray retrieval system M. DE MORAES CUNHA, ORION DE OLIVEIRA SILVA and O. L. GONGALEZ SUMASU YAMADA and 549 Systematic approach for stochastic model in reactor KUNIHARU KISHIDA noise analysis Current Papers in Nuclear Energy Guidelines for the Preparation of Typescripts for Direct Reproduction NUMBER 10-12 A SPECIAL ISSUE IN HONOUR OF JACQUES DEVOOGHT M. M. R. WILLIAMS Vv Editorial R. BEAUWENS and E. MUND Vil Dedication R. T. ACKROYD 565 Finite element methods for neutron transport based on maximum and minimum principles for dis- continuous trial functions Yousry Y. AZMY 593 Arbitrarily high order characteristic methods for solving the neutron transport equation R. BEAUWENS and E. MuUND 607 Scalar product formulas for nodal methods in hexagonal-z geometry R. BOER and H. FINNEMANN 617 Fast analytical flux reconstruction method for nodal space-time nuclear reactor analysis R. BoRSARI, R. FIORESI 629 Asymptotic stability for delayed differential systems and T. TROMBETTI with nonnegative coupling in reactor dynamics L. Bovio, V. COLOMBO, 639 Two-dimensional transport with highly anisotropic G. G. M. Coppa, G. LAPENTA scattering and P. RAVETTO NogEL R. CORNGOLD 655 On the zero-energy moments of the distribution of fast atoms and cascades J. P. HENNART 663 A finite element approach to point- and mesh- centered finite difference schemes over rectangular grids Volume Contents ALAIN KAVENOKY 679 Supercomputing applied to nuclear reactors K. KOBAYASHI, Y. ONO and 685 An analysis of a heterogeneous core using Green’s Y. NAGAYA function EDWARD W. LARSEN 701 A theoretical derivation of the Condensed History Algorithm MIHALY MAKAI 715 Plane waves and response matrices G. C. POMRANING 737 Diffusive transport in binary anisotropic stochastic mixtures EUGENE L. WACHSPRESS 765 Optimum parameters for two-variable ADI iteration ZBIGNIEW WEISS 779 A closed form solution of the Neutron Evacuation Problem from an expanding, purely absorbing sphere M. M. R. WILLIAMS 791 A new model for describing the transport of radio- nuclides through fractured rock YuN-Fu Wu and J. D. LEwINns Monte Carlo studies of engineering system reliability