TY - JOUR
T1 - SCALE Developments for the U.S. Nuclear Criticality Safety Program
T2 - 2024 Transactions of the American Nuclear Society on Winter Conference and Expo, ANS 2024
AU - Bekar, K. B.
AU - Brown, J.
AU - Celik, C.
AU - Greene, T.
AU - Hart, S. W.D.
AU - Marshall, W. J.
AU - McDonnell, J. D.
AU - Mertyurek, U.
AU - Skutnik, S. E.
AU - Wieselquist, W. A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 American Nuclear Society. All rights reserved.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - This summary covers the key capabilities in SCALE for NCS practitioners with a focus on those capabilities developed in 2023 and 2024 that support the US Nuclear Criticality Safety Program. SCALE 6.3, released in 2023, is the current, quality-assured production version of the code, intended for use in applications such as criticality safety, validation basis assessment, and uncertainty propagation. All SCALE training is now using the 6.3 series, which is currently planned to be supported with maintenance updates (which include visualization improvements) and bug fixes through 2026. The next series, SCALE 7.0, is currently available as a pre-release beta, with new NCS-facing features focusing on ease-of-use and deployment with parallelism, additional sensitivity and uncertainty capabilities, visualization, and additional post-processing capabilities.
AB - This summary covers the key capabilities in SCALE for NCS practitioners with a focus on those capabilities developed in 2023 and 2024 that support the US Nuclear Criticality Safety Program. SCALE 6.3, released in 2023, is the current, quality-assured production version of the code, intended for use in applications such as criticality safety, validation basis assessment, and uncertainty propagation. All SCALE training is now using the 6.3 series, which is currently planned to be supported with maintenance updates (which include visualization improvements) and bug fixes through 2026. The next series, SCALE 7.0, is currently available as a pre-release beta, with new NCS-facing features focusing on ease-of-use and deployment with parallelism, additional sensitivity and uncertainty capabilities, visualization, and additional post-processing capabilities.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85215626526&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.13182/T131-45911
DO - 10.13182/T131-45911
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85215626526
SN - 0003-018X
VL - 131
SP - 736
EP - 739
JO - Transactions of the American Nuclear Society
JF - Transactions of the American Nuclear Society
IS - 1
Y2 - 17 November 2024 through 21 November 2024
ER -