History of RFSP for CANDU Fuel Management and Safety Analysis

Abstract

RFSP (Reactor Fuelling Simulation Program) is the main scientific code for full-core neutronics simulation and analysis of CANDU reactors. RFSP has a long history, dating from the 1970s and spanning a large number of versions, some of which diverged. However, these eventually converged back to the Industry Standard Toolset version RFSP-IST. The list of people actively involved in the development of RFSP is, correspondingly, very long. In a bid to retain memory of the main steps in the development of RFSP, this paper attempts to document in a summary manner these major milestones. While Prof. Daniel Rozon was not personally involved with RFSP, this paper relates to Prof. Rozon’s central work on reactor physics computational codes and methods, and the paper is dedicated to Prof. Rozon’s memory.