TY - JOUR
T1 - Monte Carlo capabilities of the SCALE code system
AU - Rearden, B. T.
AU - Petrie, L. M.
AU - Peplow, D. E.
AU - Bekar, K. B.
AU - Wiarda, D.
AU - Celik, C.
AU - Perfetti, C. M.
AU - Ibrahim, A. M.
AU - Hart, S. W.D.
AU - Dunn, M. E.
AU - Marshall, W. J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
PY - 2015/8/1
Y1 - 2015/8/1
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, licensees, 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 can be selected based on the desired solution, including hybrid deterministic/Monte Carlo simulations. 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 will provide 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 and uncertainty analysis. An overview of the Monte Carlo capabilities of SCALE is provided here, with emphasis on new features for SCALE 6.2.
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, licensees, 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 can be selected based on the desired solution, including hybrid deterministic/Monte Carlo simulations. 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 will provide 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 and uncertainty analysis. An overview of the Monte Carlo capabilities of SCALE is provided here, with emphasis on new features for SCALE 6.2.
KW - Criticality safety
KW - Depletion
KW - Monte Carlo
KW - SCALE
KW - Sensitivity analysis
KW - Shielding
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U2 - 10.1016/j.anucene.2014.08.019
DO - 10.1016/j.anucene.2014.08.019
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84923331969
SN - 0306-4549
VL - 82
SP - 130
EP - 141
JO - Annals of Nuclear Energy
JF - Annals of Nuclear Energy
ER -