Reproducibility and Monte Carlo eigenvalue calculations

Conference · Wed Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1992 · Transactions of the American Nuclear Society; (United States)

OSTI ID:7057460

Brown, F B; Sutton, T M ^[1]

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1. Knolls Atomic Power Lab., Schenectady, NY (United States)

Monte Carlo methods are used routinely to compute the eigenvalue and power distribution of reactor cores and fuel assemblies. Reproducibility of the results is vital to quality assurance for engineering design and to the process of developing and verifying a Monte Carlo code. In this paper, the authors outline methods used in the RACER Monte Carlo code, which ensure reproducibility, regardless of supergrouping or parallel processing, and which are completely consistent with conventional scalar Monte Carlo eigenvalue calculational methods.

• OSTI ID: 7057460
• Report Number(s): CONF-920606--
• Conference Information: Journal Name: Transactions of the American Nuclear Society; (United States) Journal Volume: 65
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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ALGORITHMS
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DESIGN
EIGENVALUES
FUEL ASSEMBLIES
MATHEMATICAL LOGIC
MEMORY MANAGEMENT
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REACTOR PHYSICS
SCALARS
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