Effect of Neutron Anisotropic Scattering and Treatment of Angular Dependency of Neutron Flux in Effective Cross Section on Criticality in Fast Reactor Analysis

Abstract

Numerical tests were performed about an effect of neutron anisotropic scattering and treatment of angular dependency of neutron flux in effective cross section on criticality based on previous researches. Three approximations described on a previous report were compared to each other in both one-dimensional slab model and two-dimensional cylindrical model. As a result, it was found that the transport approximation, which has been conventionally used in fast reactor analyses in Japan, has a good accuracy in criticality analyses of typical fast reactors. However, the transport approximation is not enough to calculate accurately cores which have fuel-reflector boundary. Therefore it is desirable that the extended transport approximation with higher order of anisotropic scattering is used in the analyses for such cores.