Overview of Scale 6.2

Conference · Sun Sep 29 00:00:00 EDT 2013

OSTI ID:1095656

Rearden, Bradley T. ^[1]; Dunn, Michael E. ^[1]; Wiarda, Dorothea ^[1]; Celik, Cihangir ^[1]; Bekar, Kursat B. ^[1]; Williams, Mark L. ^[1]; Peplow, Douglas E. ^[1]; Perfetti, Christopher M. ^[1]; Gauld, Ian C. ^[1]; Wieselquist, William A. ^[1]; Lefebvre, Jordan P. ^[1]; Lefebvre, Robert A. ^[1]; Havluj, Frantisek ^[2]; Skutnik, Steven ^[3]; Dugan, Kevin ^[4]

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1. Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
2. Nuclear Research Institute, Rez (Czech Republic)
3. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
4. Texas A & M University, College Station, TX (United States)

SCALE is an industry-leading suite of tools for nuclear systems modeling and simulation that provides comprehensive, verified and validated, user-friendly capabilities for criticality safety, reactor physics, radiation shielding, and sensitivity and uncertainty analysis. For more than 30 years, regulators, licensees, and research institutions around the world have used SCALE for nuclear safety analysis and design. SCALE provides a plug-and-play framework that includes three deterministic and three Monte Carlo radiation transport solvers that are selected based on the desired solution. SCALE includes the latest nuclear data libraries for continuous-energy and multigroup radiation transport as well as activation, depletion, and decay calculations. SCALE s graphical user interfaces assist with accurate system modeling, visualization, and convenient access to desired results. SCALE 6.2 provides several new capabilities and significant improvements in many existing features, especially with expanded CE Monte Carlo capabilities for criticality safety, shielding, depletion, and sensitivity and uncertainty analysis. A brief overview of SCALE capabilities is provided with emphasis on new features for SCALE 6.2.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Nuclear Research Institute, Rez (Czech Republic); Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States); Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Nuclear Criticality Safety Program (NCSP)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 1095656
• Resource Relation: Conference: ANS NCSD 2013 - Criticality Safety in the Modern Era: Raising the Bar , Wilmington, NC (United States), Sep 29 - Oct 3 2013
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING
Nuclear Criticality Safety Program (NCSP)
SCALE
Monte Carlo
New Features