“…Hence, the neutron spectrum at the point under study near the sphere surface must contain a partial component with the spectrum of fission neutrons. It is known that the spectrum of instantaneous fission neutrons from 252 Cf nuclei includes three partial Weisskopf evaporation spectra with mean neutron spectral energies of 0.4, 2.0, and 2.8 MeV [22]. Therefore, the other neutrons, with the spectrum of instantaneous fission neutrons, i.e., predominantly neutrons with energies of <1 MeV in each of the above three partial Weisskopf evaporation spectra, are transformed into thermal and epithermal neutrons as a result of multiple elastic neutron scattering by hydrogen nuclei.…”