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Title: Monte Carlo capabilities of the SCALE code system

Abstract

SCALE is a broadly used 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 can be selected based on the desired solution, including hybrid deterministic/Monte Carlo simulations. 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 will provide several new capabilities and significant improvements in many existing features, especially with expanded continuous-energy Monte Carlo capabilities for criticality safety, shielding, depletion, and sensitivity and uncertainty analysis. Finally, an overview of the Monte Carlo capabilities of SCALE is provided here, with emphasis on new features for SCALE 6.2.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [2];  [1];  [1]
  1. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  2. Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1286736
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1249666
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725
Resource Type:
Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Annals of Nuclear Energy (Oxford)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 82; Journal ID: ISSN 0306-4549
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING; SCALE; Monte Carlo; Criticality safety; Shielding; Sensitivity analysis; Depletion

Citation Formats

Rearden, Bradley T., Petrie, Jr., Lester M., Peplow, Douglas E., Bekar, Kursat B., Wiarda, Dorothea, Celik, Cihangir, Perfetti, Christopher M., Ibrahim, Ahmad M., Hart, S. W. D., Dunn, Michael E., and Marshall, William J. Monte Carlo capabilities of the SCALE code system. United States: N. p., 2014. Web. doi:10.1016/j.anucene.2014.08.019.
Rearden, Bradley T., Petrie, Jr., Lester M., Peplow, Douglas E., Bekar, Kursat B., Wiarda, Dorothea, Celik, Cihangir, Perfetti, Christopher M., Ibrahim, Ahmad M., Hart, S. W. D., Dunn, Michael E., & Marshall, William J. Monte Carlo capabilities of the SCALE code system. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2014.08.019
Rearden, Bradley T., Petrie, Jr., Lester M., Peplow, Douglas E., Bekar, Kursat B., Wiarda, Dorothea, Celik, Cihangir, Perfetti, Christopher M., Ibrahim, Ahmad M., Hart, S. W. D., Dunn, Michael E., and Marshall, William J. 2014. "Monte Carlo capabilities of the SCALE code system". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2014.08.019. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1286736.
@article{osti_1286736,
title = {Monte Carlo capabilities of the SCALE code system},
author = {Rearden, Bradley T. and Petrie, Jr., Lester M. and Peplow, Douglas E. and Bekar, Kursat B. and Wiarda, Dorothea and Celik, Cihangir and Perfetti, Christopher M. and Ibrahim, Ahmad M. and Hart, S. W. D. and Dunn, Michael E. and Marshall, William J.},
abstractNote = {SCALE is a broadly used 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 can be selected based on the desired solution, including hybrid deterministic/Monte Carlo simulations. 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 will provide several new capabilities and significant improvements in many existing features, especially with expanded continuous-energy Monte Carlo capabilities for criticality safety, shielding, depletion, and sensitivity and uncertainty analysis. Finally, an overview of the Monte Carlo capabilities of SCALE is provided here, with emphasis on new features for SCALE 6.2.},
doi = {10.1016/j.anucene.2014.08.019},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1286736}, journal = {Annals of Nuclear Energy (Oxford)},
issn = {0306-4549},
number = ,
volume = 82,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Sep 12 00:00:00 EDT 2014},
month = {Fri Sep 12 00:00:00 EDT 2014}
}

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