The 3rd SCALE Users’ Group Workshop was held August 19-21, 2019, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The workshop provided a highly interactive forum for a fruitful exchange between SCALE users and developers and included a mix of technical presentations, open discussions, and tutorial sessions. An evening poster session and reception were held the first day of the meeting. Topical areas for technical presentations included:
- Advanced reactor modeling with SCALE
- Applications of SCALE for nuclear criticality safety
- Applications of SCALE for nuclear safeguards and security
- Decommissioning, disposal and spent nuclear fuel burnup credit
- LWR modeling with SCALE
- Nuclear data for SCALE applications
- Reactor safety analysis enabled by SCALE
The following tutorials were offered:
- Activation analysis of the Silene experiment with ORIGEN/MAVRIC
- Criticality analysis with CSAS/Shift and 3D visualization in Fulcrum
- Generation of ORIGEN libraries with Polaris
- Generation of SCALE multi-group libraries with AMPX
- New Molten Salt Reactor modeling capabilities in TRITON
- Nodal data generation for core simulators with TRITON/Shift
- Optimization and uncertainty quantification for criticality safety with Sampler
- Research reactor source terms with ORIGEN for safeguards applications
- SCALE utilities for nuclear data interrogation, comparison, and visualization
Participants were invited to contribute with presentations on impactful and innovative applications of SCALE.