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The objective of this chapter is to examine the history of nuclear criticality safety calculations. To this end, we will review the history of criticality safety concerns and look at the various approaches in dealing with this particular type of calculation. The criticality safety methods that are the subject of this chapter are those that are used to determine the criticality safety of the handling, transportation, and storage of fissile materials outside nuclear reactors.
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Whitesides, G.E., Westfall, R.M., Hopper, C.M. (2010). Criticality Safety Methods. In: Nuclear Computational Science. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3411-3_7
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