Estimation of neutronics parameter sensitivity to nuclear data in random sampling-based uncertainty quantification calculations

With the estimated sensitivity profiles, partial uncertainties, that are neutronics parameters uncertainties induced by specific nuclear data uncertainties, are also calculated. Numerical tests reveal that the proposed method reproduces quite well the reference partial uncertainties. A simple and practical partial uncertainty estimation method, which only requires a covariance matrix between neutronics parameter and nuclear data, is also tested and assessed.