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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.