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  • 1 Agensi Nuklear Malaysia
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Abstract

The Malaysian’s PUSPATI TRIGA Reactor (RTP) achieved its initial criticality on June 28, 1982. The reactor is designed to effectively implement various fields of basic nuclear research, manpower training, and production of radioisotopes. Several past activities on neutronics modelling development and validation of the RTP were carried out using Monte Carlo Code MCNP. In this work, the developed model was used to characterise in-core and beam-ports irradiation facilities of the reactor. The thermal and fast neutron flux distributions in these facilities were determined using MCNP mesh tally method. It was found that the flux as well as its spectral characteristics depended very much on the position of the irradiation facility in the reactor core or in the beam-ports. The maximum neutron flux was found to be in the Central Thimble facility with 1.98E13 nv of thermal neutron. The thermal-to-total flux ratio varies significantly from 0.41 for the in-core facility, 0.58 in the reflector and up to 0.88 in the beam-ports.