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Henry C. Honeck
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 18 | Number 1 | January 1964 | Pages 49-68
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE64-A18140
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Theoretical methods for computing intracell thermal-neutron densities, disadvantage factors and thermal utilizations are presented. The topics discussed are the computation of the neutron spectra in a lattice, anisotropic scattering by water, the cylindrical cell effect, correlation of spectral moments and average one-group cross sections, one-group transport-theory methods, scattering models of water, and comparison of various theories with experiment. The lattices investigated are water moderated with slightly enriched uranium metal and oxide fuel.