Nuclear Science and Engineering / Volume 31 / Number 2 / February 1968 / Pages 207-214
Technical Paper / dx.doi.org/10.13182/NSE68-A18232
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A method is presented for calculating the energy spectrum of fission neutrons slowing down in a homogeneous medium of arbitrary composition. The integral equation for ø(E) is solved by an iterative method, yielding a sum of partial spectra which are then summed to obtain a very simple expression for the slowing down spectrum. The effects of absorption and inelastic scattering are accounted for in an approximate manner. The fundamental-mode spectrum for a typical fast-reactor composition was calculated by this method, and the results agree favorably with the central spectrum from a 26-group diffusion calculation. A further application is given for using this method to generate weighting spectra for computing average multigroup cross sections.