Fast reactor nuclear physics parameters calculation code system "EXPARAM"

Iijima, Susumu*; Kato, Yuichi*; Takasaki, Kenichi*; Okajima, Shigeaki  

The calculation code system "EXPARAM" was designed to analyze the experimental results systematically measured at the fast critical assembly (FCA). Some calculation codes developed independently in JAERI and in US research institutes were collected and arranged as the fast reactor physics calculation code system. The multi-group core calculation code and the perturbation calculation code based on the diffusion theory and the transport theory calculate the reactor physics parameters such as eigenvalue, reaction rate, Doppler reactivity worth and sodium void worth. The dynamic physics parameters such as prompt neutron lifetime and effective delayed neutron fraction are also calculated. Input and Output data of calculation codes are transferred to each other using a direct access file on UNIX computer system.