Abstract
Simulation of the ex-core detector response function (DRF) is of great importance for reactor power monitoring, control and protection systems. However, the 3D DRF calculation requires vast majorities of computational resources due to its characteristics such as deep penetration, strong anisotropic scattering, large computational geometry, etc. In this paper, the step characteristics (SC) spatial differencing scheme and GMRES algorithm have been implemented in the 3D SN code to ensure the simulation efficient. The adjoint first-collision (FC) source method is developed to mitigate the ray effect in the DRF simulation. The Kobayashi benchmarks are calculated to verify the correctness of the FC module. Numerical results based on the Kori-1 reactor ex-core detector indicate that the SN-FC method has the comparable accuracy with multi-group Monte-Carlo method but achieves much higher efficiency.
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