Comparison of ADVANTG simulations to simple shielding measurements

Douglas E. Peplow, Charles R. Daily

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Abstract

The ADVANTG tool uses a quick adjoint deterministic calculation to develop variance reduction parameters (a weight windows map and consistent biased source sampling distribution) to increase the efficiency of an MCNP Monte Carlo radiation transport code. Four well-documented experiments have been simulated with standard analog MCNP and ADVANTG-enhanced MCNP. Results using ADVANTG match the standard MCNP results well-showing that the use of the variance reduction parameters has not changed the answers. Modest gains in speed were observed for neutron problems, and significant gains were observed for photon problems. Note that these experiments are all simple-for deep penetration problems, the FOM improvements from ADVANTG are much more dramatic [2].

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication18th Topical Meeting of the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division, RPSD 2014
PublisherAmerican Nuclear Society
Pages84-87
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781510801875
StatePublished - 2014
Event18th Topical Meeting of the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division of ANS, RPSD 2014 - Knoxville, United States
Duration: Sep 14 2014Sep 18 2014

Publication series

Name18th Topical Meeting of the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division of ANS, RPSD 2014

Conference

Conference18th Topical Meeting of the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division of ANS, RPSD 2014
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityKnoxville
Period09/14/1409/18/14

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