Previous work at Stanford University has demonstrated that inductance in the
substrate connection is the principal problem underlying the coupling of digital
switching noise into analog circuits. The low impedance substrate can be treated
as a single node over a local area. Switching in the digital circuits produces
current transients...
Traditional readings of George Bernard Shaw's texts suggest that he is not a pure
Marxist socialist because of the spiritual and nationalist aspects of his vision. This thesis
attempts to confront Shaw's politics in order to demonstrate that he indeed offers a viable
socialist program. Overlaying his socialism with Louis...
The uncertainty in decay energy for those fission products
which contribute significantly to reactor shutdown
power was evaluated. The methodology used assigned significantly
larger uncertainties for data which were theoretically
predicted than it did for experimentally determined
data. The uncertainty was modeled as an increasing function
of distance from beta...
The magnitude of the effect on decay heat of neutron
capture by fission products for hypothesized "worst case"
irradiations was examined. This effect is shown to be
small (less than 2 percent) for times less than 1,000
seconds and a simple model is presented for estimating
the magnitude of the...
Independent fission product yields are primary input nuclear
data in the evaluation of nuclear reactor after-heat when using a
nuclide-decay summation method. The error in yield values is one
of the major causes of uncertainty of this calculation. Since only
a small fraction of the fission product yields has been...
