Validation of MCNP, a comparison with SCALE: Part 3, Highly enriched uranium oxide systems.

摘要

This is Part 3 of a series of validation studies dealing with highly enriched uranium systems. For this study only one set of critical experiments involving uranium dioxide have been modeled. Earlier studies address the validation of MCNP for use with highly enriched uranium solutions and metal systems. The calculations of k(sub eff) were performed using MCNP 4. MCNP is a Monte Carlo based transport code which used continuous-energy nuclear data for these calculations. ENDF/B-V cross sections were used for this study. This report also compares the results of MCNP with the results of the CSAS25 module of SCALE 4 using the 27 group ENDF/B-V cross sections. A previous validation study includes information about the CSAS25 module and the resulting data.