Parametric analysis of the neutron transmutation doping (NTD) facility at the Egyptian Second Research Reactor (ETRR-2)

One of the most important facilities of the Egyptian Second Research Reactor (ETRR-2) is the silicon Neutron Transmutation Doping (NTD) Facility. This work is done to optimize the performance of the ETRR-2 NTD facility based on the standards and to develop a calculation line that can be used during its commercial operating phase. Calculation line methodology was developed using WIMS-D4 and CITVAP codes as well as nuclear data file libraries to perform core calculations needed to predict neutronic parameters at the two NTD locations. Axial