ENDFtk: A robust tool for reading and writing ENDF-formatted nuclear data
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
ENDFtk is a recently developed C++ and Python interface to interact with ENDF-6 formatted nuclear data files. It provides a robust and complete interface, allowing the reading and writing of all formats currently part of the ENDF-6 formats manual, as well as some non-ENDF formats used by the NJOY processing code. It provides an interface that mimics the names in the ENDF-6 formats manual as well as an equivalent interface using human-readable attribute names. It is robust and powerful enough for nuclear data experts to develop complex applications, while also simple enough to be used non-experts to retrieve and manipulate evaluated nuclear data. ENDFtk offers the ability to easily interrogate and manipulate data either in large-scale code projects or in simple Python scripts. Here, in this paper, a brief overview of the interface is given, as well as more substantial examples demonstrating plotting simple data, interacting with more complex data, and writing new data to files. ENDFtk is open source and available for download via GitHub (https://github.com/njoy/ENDFtk).
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Nuclear Criticality Safety Program (NCSP); USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Office of Defense Nuclear Security
- DOE Contract Number:
- 89233218CNA000001
- OSTI ID:
- 2438490
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR--24-24602
- Journal Information:
- Computer Physics Communications, Journal Name: Computer Physics Communications Vol. 303; ISSN 0010-4655
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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