NEA-0035 MUPO.

MUPO, Critical 43 Group Spectra Calculation for Homogeneous Reactor

NAME OR DESIGNATION OF PROGRAM, COMPUTER, NATURE OF PHYSICAL PROBLEM SOLVED, METHOD OF SOLUTION, RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PROBLEM, TYPICAL RUNNING TIME, UNUSUAL FEATURES OF THE PROGRAM, RELATED AND AUXILIARY PROGRAMS, STATUS, REFERENCES, MACHINE REQUIREMENTS, LANGUAGE, OPERATING SYSTEM OR MONITOR UNDER WHICH PROGRAM IS EXECUTED, ANY OTHER PROGRAMMING OR OPERATING INFORMATION OR RESTRICTIONS, NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHOR, MATERIAL, CATEGORIES

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1. NAME OR DESIGNATION OF PROGRAM: MUPO.

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2. COMPUTERS

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Program name	Package id	Status	Status date
MUPO	NEA-0035/02	Tested	01-MAY-1970

Machines used:

Package ID	Orig. computer	Test computer
NEA-0035/02	IBM 360 series	IBM 360 series

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3. NATURE OF PHYSICAL PROBLEM SOLVED

MUPO calculates the critical spectrum of a bare homogeneous reactor in 43 groups. This spectrum is used to evaluate condensed microscopic cross-sections.
An option for this programme is to read in the library data from cards and write the binary library tape -DRAGON LIBRARY 3-.

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4. METHOD OF SOLUTION

3 options. Introduction of an additional absorber to account for a control poison, source iteration technique, and a buckling iteration.

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5. RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PROBLEM: 110 materials.

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6. TYPICAL RUNNING TIME

1 minute on CDC 1604 A. 15 seconds for the test case execution and 2 minutes to generate library tape (7090).
Punched cards output is used as input for various nuclear programmes.

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7. UNUSUAL FEATURES OF THE PROGRAM: Data library given either as cards or as tape.

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8. RELATED AND AUXILIARY PROGRAMS: ANGIE, ZOOM, FEVER, BABS, BASS, HELTOT and HELMAI.

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9. STATUS

Package ID	Status date	Status
NEA-0035/02	01-MAY-1970	Tested at NEADB

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10. REFERENCES

NEA-0035/02, included references:

- Amendment notes to MUPO
- J. Schloesser:
MUPO, An IBM-7090 Programme to Calculate Neutron Spectra
and Multi-group Constants
  D.P. Report 172.
- KDF9 Version of MUPO (DPRDD/1418)
- U. Nyffenegger:
  The Dragon Nuclear Data Library Three
  DP report 420.
- Dragon library

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11. MACHINE REQUIREMENTS: 32k memory and two working tapes.

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12. PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE(S) USED

Package ID	Computer language
NEA-0035/02	FORTRAN-IV

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13. OPERATING SYSTEM OR MONITOR UNDER WHICH PROGRAM IS EXECUTED

FORTRAN monitor system (IBM 7090).
IBM 360 Operating System.
CO-OP monitor system (CDC 1604 A).

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14. ANY OTHER PROGRAMMING OR OPERATING INFORMATION OR RESTRICTIONS

Uses RELOCOM and EXECUTOR on the CDC 1604 A. Change tape channel assignments by altering the first 4 executable statements of the main programme.

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15. NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHOR

      Juergen Schloesser
      Dragon Project
      Winfrith
      U.K.
CDC 1604 version was offered by EIR (Institut Federal de Recherches en matiere de reacteurs, Switzerland).

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16. MATERIAL AVAILABLE

NEA-0035/02

File name	File description	Records
NEA0035_02.001	SOURCE & OVERLAY CARDS IBM 360	1422
NEA0035_02.002	LIB4 FOR MUPO	3992
NEA0035_02.003	LIB5 FOR MUPO	5987
NEA0035_02.004	OUTPUT	3765

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17. CATEGORIES

B. Spectrum Calculations, Generation of Group Constants and Cell Problems
C. Static Design Studies

Keywords: buckling, criticality, cross sections, homogeneous reactors, iterative methods, multigroup, neutron spectra, poisoning.