Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 736-739 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Transactions of the American Nuclear Society |
| Volume | 131 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| State | Published - 2024 |
| Event | 2024 Transactions of the American Nuclear Society on Winter Conference and Expo, ANS 2024 - Orlando, United States Duration: Nov 17 2024 → Nov 21 2024 |
Funding
This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle LLC under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the US Department of Energy (DOE). 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. DOE will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan (http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan). This work was supported by the Nuclear Criticality Safety Program, which is funded and managed by the National Nuclear Security Administration for the US Department of Energy. Additional support was provided by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.