Abstract
This paper presents the status of different Monte Carlo (MC) particle transport codes regarding their capabilities to model the European fusion power demonstration reactor (DEMO). This work was carried out, via a collaboration between CEA, CCFE, IPPLM and KIT to evaluate MC codes which could replace MCNP for nuclear analysis on DEMO. Each association has participated using a different MC code: CEA with TRIPOLI-4, CCFE with Serpent, and IPPLM with FLUKA. The common DEMO model studied has been developed by KIT with MCNP. Considerable effort was required to translate the MCNP input deck into the syntax of Serpent and FLUKA codes; so no real nuclear analysis has been performed in the frame of this work. Regarding TRIPOLI-4, a benchmark has been successfully conducted; the results obtained are statistically similar to those of MCNP with comparable computation times.
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