Uranium systems to enhance benchmarks for use in the verification of criticality safety computer models. Final report, February 16, 1990--December 31, 1994
- New Mexico Univ., Albuquerque, NM (United States). Dept. of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering
Dr. Robert Busch of the Department of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering was the principal investigator on this project with technical direction provided by the staff in the Nuclear Criticality Safety Group at Los Alamos. During the period of the contract, he had a number of graduate and undergraduate students working on subtasks. The objective of this work was to develop information on uranium systems to enhance benchmarks for use in the verification of criticality safety computer models. During the first year of this project, most of the work was focused on setting up the SUN SPARC-1 Workstation and acquiring the literature which described the critical experiments. By august 1990, the Workstation was operational with the current version of TWODANT loaded on the system. MCNP, version 4 tape was made available from Los Alamos late in 1990. Various documents were acquired which provide the initial descriptions of the critical experiments under consideration as benchmarks. The next four years were spent working on various benchmark projects. A number of publications and presentations were made on this material. These are briefly discussed in this report.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); New Mexico Univ., Albuquerque, NM (United States). Dept. of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36
- OSTI ID:
- 95266
- Report Number(s):
- LA-SUB-95-97; ON: DE95016512; CNN: Contract No. 9-XU0-D1200; TRN: 95:018661
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: 24 Feb 1995
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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