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Neutronics Analysis of Fusion Systems
Presentation slides for the fusion energy neutronics workshop
Jonathan Shimwell
fusion,neutronics,neutron,photon,radiation,simulation,openmc,dagmc
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Overview of neutronics simulation software

  • Inventory codes
  • Monte Carlo Radiation transport
  • Geometry conversion software

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Inventory codes (Bateman equation)

Name of software Group / community / country
ACAB UNED, Spain
ALARA Wisconsin, US
Aburn North China Electrical Power
OpenMC MIT, ANL, community
Origen LANL, US
Serpent VTT, Finland
Fispact CCFE / UKAEA
Fornax Silver Fir Software, US

Radiation transport

Sampling the Boltzman transport equation

  • Stochastic / Monte Carlo is most widely used method in fusion
  • Track individual particle histories through phase space
  • Random sampling of particle behavior at each event
  • Accumulate contributions to the mean behavior from each history
  • Variance reduction used to speed up simulation

Monte Carlo Simulations

Name of software Group / community / country
FLUKA CERN
GEANT CERN
MCNP LANL
OpenMC MIT, ANL and open source community
Serpent VTT, Finland
TopMC China
TRIPOLI France
SCONE Cambridge UK
MC DC US

Geometry for Monte Carlo

CAD to DAGMC convertors

  • cad-to-dagmc
  • cad-to-openmc
  • stl-to-dagmc
  • stellermesh
  • Cubit

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CAD to CSG convertors

  • GeoUned
  • McCAD
  • TopMC

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Geometry conversion

Link to flowchat

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Software distribution

Open source codes such as OpenMC and DAGMC are distributed via GitHub, conda.

Some codes used in neutronics are controlled codes under export control

Distribution in the US by RSICC and in the EU by the NEA databank.

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Questions

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