Rapid calibaration of the control rod of miniature neutron source reactor types

Abstract

An innovative method of combining the well-known computer codes WIMS and CITATION in an interactive Windows environment to calculate the control rod worth and generate the calibration data/curve of single-contr-ol rod miniature source reactor (MNSR) types has been developed and tested. In the scheme, once CITATION base data have been prepared using group constants generated by WIMS, the required calculations are perform-ed automatically. The methodology eliminates errors and cumbersome procedures involved in manual regenera-tion of data after each CITATION pass associated with the calculations, thus facilitating the reactor design proc-ess, such that an important aspect of reactor design calculation that used to take days or weeks could now be more reliably done within the shortest possible time.


(Journal of Applied Science and Technology: 2001 6(1-2): 7-12)