Benchmark test of TRIPOLI-4 code through simple model calculation and analysis of fusion neutronics experiments at JAEA/FNS

Abstract In order to examine a basic performance of the TRIPOLI code, two types of analyses were carried out with TRIPOLI-4.4 and MCNP5-1.40; one is a simple model calculation and the other is an analysis of iron fusion neutronics experiments with DT neutrons at the Fusion Neutronics Source (FNS) facility in Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA). In the simple model calculation, we adopted a sphere of 0.5 m in radius with a 20 MeV neutron source in the center and calculated leakage neutron spectra from the sphere. We also analyzed in situ and Time-of-Flight (TOF) experiments for iron at JAEA/FNS. For the in situ experiment, neutron spectra and reaction rates for dosimetry reactions were calculated for several points inside the assembly. For the TOF experiment, angular neutron leakage spectra from the assembly were calculated. Results with TRIPOLI were comparable to those with MCNP in most calculations, but a difference between TRIPOLI and MCNP calculation results, probably caused by inadequate treatment of inelastic scattering data in TRIPOLI, appears in some calculations.