Using the MCNP6.2 Correlated Fission Multiplicity Models, CGMF and FREYA
- Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS B283, Los Alamos, NM, 87545, USA (United States)
The culmination of a multi-year, collaborative effort by researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and the University of Michigan, led to the delivery of two new correlated fission multiplicity models available within the latest release of MCNP{sup R} version 6.2. The needs within the nuclear nonproliferation community, particularly in simulating and predicting the neutron and gamma-ray signatures of special nuclear materials (SNM), provided the motivation for this major collaborative effort. From LANL, the CGMF code has been implemented as an upgrade to the original Cascading Gamma-ray Multiplicity (CGM) code. Additionally, the LLNL Fission Library has been upgraded from the original implementation released in prior versions of MCNP6/X to include the LBNL/LLNL Fission Reaction Event Yield Algorithm (FREYA) code. Both new codes are capable of simulating fission events with correlated neutron and gamma-ray emissions. Due to the release of these new models within MCNP6.2, the purpose of this paper is to describe the differences between these new models and existing capabilities, demonstrate their use in the context of simulation inputs and outputs, and to discuss some of the ongoing work directed toward the next generation of these features.
- OSTI ID:
- 23050293
- Journal Information:
- Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, Vol. 116; Conference: 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Nuclear Society, San Francisco, CA (United States), 11-15 Jun 2017; Other Information: Country of input: France; 10 refs.; available from American Nuclear Society - ANS, 555 North Kensington Avenue, La Grange Park, IL 60526 (US); ISSN 0003-018X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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