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Title: Modular System for Neutronics Calculations of Fission Reactors, Fusion Blankets, and Other Systems.

Abstract

AUS is a neutronics code system which may be used for calculations of a wide range of fission reactors, fusion blankets and other neutron applications. The present version, AUS98, has a nuclear cross section library based on ENDF/B-VI and includes modules which provide for reactor lattice calculations, one-dimensional transport calculations, multi-dimensional diffusion calculations, cell and whole reactor burnup calculations, and flexible editing of results. Calculations of multi-region resonance shielding, coupled neutron and photon transport, energy deposition, fission product inventory and neutron diffusion are combined within the one code system. The major changes from the previous release, AUS87, are the inclusion of a cross-section library based on ENDF/B-VI, the addition of the POW3D multi-dimensional diffusion module, the addition of the MICBURN module for controlling whole reactor burnup calculations, and changes to the system as a consequence of moving from IBM mainframe computers to UNIX workstations.

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1256869
Report Number(s):
AUS98; 004101MLTPL00
RSICC ID: C00519MNYWS
DOE Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725
Resource Type:
Software
Software Revision:
00
Software Package Number:
004101
Software CPU:
MLTPL
Source Code Available:
No
Other Software Info:
Owner Installation: Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation Contributors: Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Lucas Heights, Australia. AUS98 includes a cross-section library with 200 neutron and 37 photon groups and a fission product decay library with 869 fission products. Both libraries are based on ENDF/B-VI. AUS98 is a modular system in which the modules are complete programs linked by a path given in the input stream. A simple path is simply a sequence of modules, but the path is actually preprocessed and compiled using the Fortran 77 compiler. This provides for complex module linking if required. KEYWORDS: CELL CALCULATIONS; COLLISION PROBABILITY; CTR; DIFFUSION THEORY; DISCRETE ORDINATES; GAMMA-RAY; MODULAR SYSTEM; MULTIGROUP; NEUTRON; REACTOR PHYSICS
Country of Publication:
United States

Citation Formats

ROBINSON, GRAHAM S. Modular System for Neutronics Calculations of Fission Reactors, Fusion Blankets, and Other Systems.. Computer software. Vers. 00. USDOE. 23 Jul. 1999. Web.
ROBINSON, GRAHAM S. (1999, July 23). Modular System for Neutronics Calculations of Fission Reactors, Fusion Blankets, and Other Systems. (Version 00) [Computer software].
ROBINSON, GRAHAM S. Modular System for Neutronics Calculations of Fission Reactors, Fusion Blankets, and Other Systems.. Computer software. Version 00. July 23, 1999.
@misc{osti_1256869,
title = {Modular System for Neutronics Calculations of Fission Reactors, Fusion Blankets, and Other Systems., Version 00},
author = {ROBINSON, GRAHAM S.},
abstractNote = {AUS is a neutronics code system which may be used for calculations of a wide range of fission reactors, fusion blankets and other neutron applications. The present version, AUS98, has a nuclear cross section library based on ENDF/B-VI and includes modules which provide for reactor lattice calculations, one-dimensional transport calculations, multi-dimensional diffusion calculations, cell and whole reactor burnup calculations, and flexible editing of results. Calculations of multi-region resonance shielding, coupled neutron and photon transport, energy deposition, fission product inventory and neutron diffusion are combined within the one code system. The major changes from the previous release, AUS87, are the inclusion of a cross-section library based on ENDF/B-VI, the addition of the POW3D multi-dimensional diffusion module, the addition of the MICBURN module for controlling whole reactor burnup calculations, and changes to the system as a consequence of moving from IBM mainframe computers to UNIX workstations.},
doi = {},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1256869}, year = {Fri Jul 23 00:00:00 EDT 1999},
month = {Fri Jul 23 00:00:00 EDT 1999},
note =
}

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