TY - GEN
T1 - Advancements in Monte Carlo capabilities for SCALE 6.2
AU - Rearden, B. T.
AU - Bekar, K. B.
AU - Celik, C.
AU - Perfetti, C. M.
AU - Hart, S. W.D.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - SCALE is a widely 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, industry, 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 are selected based on the desired solution. SCALE includes the latest nuclear data libraries for continuous-energy and muitigroup 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 provides 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/uncertainty analysis, as well as improved fidelity in nuclear data libraries, and an initial capability for parallel computing is enabled. Additionally, the SCALE Monte Carlo capabilities are modularized to enable rapid development of a new high performance computing Monte Carlo code.
AB - SCALE is a widely 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, industry, 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 are selected based on the desired solution. SCALE includes the latest nuclear data libraries for continuous-energy and muitigroup 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 provides 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/uncertainty analysis, as well as improved fidelity in nuclear data libraries, and an initial capability for parallel computing is enabled. Additionally, the SCALE Monte Carlo capabilities are modularized to enable rapid development of a new high performance computing Monte Carlo code.
KW - Continuous-energy
KW - Eigenvalue
KW - KENO
KW - Parallel
KW - SCALE
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84949485718&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84949485718
T3 - Mathematics and Computations, Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications and Monte Carlo International Conference, M and C+SNA+MC 2015
SP - 1507
EP - 1519
BT - Mathematics and Computations, Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications and Monte Carlo International Conference, M and C+SNA+MC 2015
PB - American Nuclear Society
T2 - Mathematics and Computations, Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications and Monte Carlo International Conference, M and C+SNA+MC 2015
Y2 - 19 April 2015 through 23 April 2015
ER -