Background: Many new concepts of nuclear energy systems with complicated geometric structures and diverse energy spectra have been put forward to meet the future demand of nuclear energy market. The traditional deterministic neutronics analysis method has been challenged in two aspects: one is the ability of generic geometry processing; the other is the multi-spectrum applicability of the multi-group cross section libraries. The Monte Carlo (MC) method predominates the suitability of geometry and spectrum

but faces the problems of long computation time and slow convergence. Purpose: This work aims to find a novel scheme to take the advantages of both methods drawn from the deterministic core analysis method and MC method. Methods: A new two-step core analysis scheme is proposed to combine the geometry modeling capability and continuous energy cross section libraries of MC method

as well as the higher computational efficiency of deterministic method. First of all

the MC simulations are performed for assembly

and the assembly homogenized multi-group cross sections are tallied at the same time. Then

the core diffusion calculations can be done with these multi-group cross sections. Results: The new scheme can achieve high efficiency while maintain acceptable precision. Conclusion: The new scheme can be used as an effective tool for the design and analysis of innovative nuclear energy systems

which has been verified by numeric tests. Abstract