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’Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house
No electrons were flowing through even my mouse.
All devices were plugged by the chimney with care
With the hope that St. Nikola Tesla would share.
Philip F. Rose
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 94 | Number 1 | September 1986 | Pages 36-41
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE86-A17114
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Ten aqueous homogeneous critical assemblies were analyzed with ENDF/B-V data by means of the SAM-CE continuous energy Monte Carlo code. Calculated keff values are consistent with experiment for large, dilute assemblies but become systematically as much as 1% too large for assemblies with both high leakage and hard flux spectra. Adjustments of keff to measured capture and fission integrals indicate improvements that should be investigated further.