Fusion Science and Technology / Volume 19 / Number 3P2B / May 1991 / Pages 1853-1858
Neutronic / Proceedings of the Ninth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Oak Brook, Illinois, October 7-11, 1990) / dx.doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29613
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In the Compact Ignition Tokamak (CIT), significant nuclear heating results from the neutron and γ interactions in structural components near the plasma and it affects their thermo-mechanical behaviors. Approximate nuclear heating distributions have previously been obtained with 2-D discrete ordinate models1 and a simple formulation based on 3-D ray-tracing and 1-D discrete ordinate models2. To reduce the geometric uncertainties in these calculations, we have constructed a set of detail 3-D Monte Carlo models for rigorous calculations. The results obtained from these models are used as benchmarks to evaluate the accuracy and relative merits of the simpler models.