DNDO Report

Technical Report · Fri Aug 07 00:00:00 EDT 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1209463· OSTI ID:1209463

Liegey, Lauren Rene ^[1]; Wilcox, Trevor ^[1]; Mckinney, Gregg Walter ^[1]

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1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

My internship program was the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office Summer Internship Program. I worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory with Trevor A. Wilcox and Gregg W. McKinney in the NEN-5 group. My project title was “MCNP Physical Model Interoperability & Validation”. The goal of my project was to write a program to predict the solar modulation parameter for dates in the future and then implement it into MCNP6. This update to MCNP6 can be used to calculate the background more precisely, which is an important factor in being able to detect Special Nuclear Material. We will share our work in a published American Nuclear Society (ANS) paper, an ANS presentation, and a LANL student poster session. Through this project, I gained skills in programming, computing, and using MCNP. I also gained experience that will help me decide on a career or perhaps obtain employment in the future.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: DHS; USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC52-06NA25396
• OSTI ID: 1209463
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-15-26289
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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