AGENT Code: Open-Architecture Analysis and Configuration of Research Reactors - Neutron Transport Modeling with Numerical Examples

Two papers presented in this Conference focus on our recent development of the advanced computational environment for the analysis and configuration of University Research and Training Reactors (URTRs). This computational environment is intending to assist researchers and educators with tools for an open-architecture neutronic analysis and configuration of the URTRs (to optimize experiments, fuel locations for flux shaping, detector selection and configuration). Such computational environment does not currently exist. The method of characteristics based computer code, AGENT, will revolutionize the way in which URTR research is planned, deployed, and analyzed through the so called “virtual reactor environment.” In this paper we describe the robustness, efficiency and accuracy of the AGENT method illustrated by two representative numerical examples.