Serpent Monte Carlo code: new methods for few-group cross section generation

The Serpent Monte Carlo (MC) code has been developed since 2004, and publicly distributed since 2009. One of the main applications for the code is the production of homogenized multi-group constants, which can still be considered a relatively unexplored field for the MC method. The calculation techniques required for this task have been implemented and refined during the seven years of Serpent development, with valuable feedback, contribution and new ideas from the user community. This paper presented two such topics: homogenization in leakage-corrected criticality spectrum and group constant generation in reflector regions. The implemented methods were verified and demonstrated by numerical examples. It is concluded that the new methodology improves the results of the deterministic calculation, and paves the way for Monte Carlo based group constant generation.