TRIPOLI 01, a three-dimensional polykinetic Monte Carlo program. Pt.1. Presentation of the TRIPOLI code

TRIPOLI is a package of programs intended for solving the neutron polykinetic transport in any three-dimensional geometry. It is written in FORTRAN for IBM computers and the 400 kilo octets are not overflown (buffers excluded). The Monte Carlo method is used. Particular emphasis is put on the problems of reducing the calculating time through two different ways: weighting or smoothing techniques have been used for processing the strong attenuations with a reasonable computer time consumption, and the quantities have been pre-calculated to reduce to a maximum the simulation time. TRIPOLI has been conceived to solve a large scale of neutron propagation problems involving fast neutrons (calculation of radiation damage in materials, biological dose or inelastic γ production), slow neutrons (mechanical structure activation, neutron flux on control chambers or sources of capture γ radiation); near the cores (materials irradiation inside power or experimental reactors) or at large distances from the sources (activation of the secondary fluid or radiation streaming through the shields). Three new possibilities appear in TRIPOLI 2: calculations in unsteady operation, point calculations of the reaction rates using the method of 'the shockless flux after the shock', and the FINE RESPONSE method in opposition to INTEGRAL RESPONSES