A Synthesis Method for the Calculation of Booster Rod Parameters

Abstract

This paper describes a method used to calculate neutron cross sections for regions representing booster rods in reactor simulation models. In formulating this method, special effort was taken to keep empirical assumptions to a minimum: 1) The standard assumption made in most D₂O-lattice cell calculations, that diffusion theory is valid except within reactivity devices, is used. 2) Other major assumptions are contained in the outline of the method given below.