Abstract
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 multigroup 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. A brief overview of SCALE capabilities is provided with emphasis on new features for SCALE 6.2.
| Original language | English |
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| State | Published - 2014 |
| Event | 2014 International Conference on Physics of Reactors, PHYSOR 2014 - Kyoto, Japan Duration: Sep 28 2014 → Oct 3 2014 |
Conference
| Conference | 2014 International Conference on Physics of Reactors, PHYSOR 2014 |
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| Country/Territory | Japan |
| City | Kyoto |
| Period | 09/28/14 → 10/3/14 |
Funding
This work was performed through the sponsorship of the US Department of Energy (DOE) Nuclear Criticality Safety Program, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the DOE Office of uNleacrn rEegy. This work was performed through the sponsorship of the US Department of Energy (DOE) Nuclear Criticality Safety Program, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy. Notice: This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the US Department of Energy. The US Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the US Government retains a nonexclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, worldwide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for US Government purposes.
Keywords
- Continuous-Energy
- Eigenvalue
- KENO
- Monaco
- SCALE
- Shielding