Evaluation of high temperature gas-cooled reactor physics experiments as VHTR benchmark problems.

1 1.0 INTRODUCTION 3 2.0 GENERAL CNPS REACTOR AND EXPERIMENT DESCRIPTIONS 5 2.1 CNPS Critical Configurations 5 2.2 Core Configurations and Experiments 9 2.3 Comparison of CNPS Data from Various Sources 14 3.0 MCNP MODELING OF CNPS 17 3.

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