HFIRCON Version 1.0.5 User Guide

Technical Report · Thu Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 2020

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1694375· OSTI ID:1694375

Daily, Charles ^[1]; Mosher, Scott ^[2]; Wilson, Stephen D. ^[1]; Chandler, David ^[1]

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1. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
2. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

The High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) Controller (HFIRCON) code is a collection of python routines and C plugins that automate the workflow for fuel and single- or multicycle target depletion analyses for HFIR at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). This code calls the LAVAMINT (LAVA Model Interrogator) parallel (MCNP) Monte Carlo N-Particle model interrogator to stochastically calculate cell volumes and bounding boxes, the ADVANTG (Automatic Variance Reduction Generation) code package for all variance reduction and source biasing calculations, the ORNL-Transformative Neutronics/MCNP5 transport solver for all transport solutions, and the MSX_DEPLETE module to perform all depletion calculations via the ORIGEN (Oak Ridge Isotope Generation) application programming interface. It also performs a robust set of postprocessing functions to automatically provide summaries of several key metrics that are common to a wide variety of typical HFIR design and safety-basis analyses.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Engineering & Technology. Office of Isotope R&D and Production; USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE), Nuclear Infrastructure Programs; NASA
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 1694375
• Report Number(s): ORNL/TM-2020/1742
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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