New Developments in Power Reactor Core Design

Three recently introduced tenchniques in the area of nuclear analysis are discussed : the structure-factor method of evaluating group material properties, the vector-synthesis method of generating three-dimensional multigroup flux distributions, and an indirect method of defining optimal restricted partitions of neutron phase-space. Each new method is compared with other commonly employed techniques and is shown to be a simplification which leads to a reductions in computational effort while retaining acceptable accuracy.