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WORKSHOP:MAVRIC / Monaco
in SCALE 6.2 Tutorial
08:00-12:00August 26, 2018
Drury Plaza Hotel Santa Fe, NM, USA
For questions, contact: Thomas Miller, ORNL
Held in association with the20th Topical Meeting of the Radiation
Protection and Shielding Division
http://rpsd2018.ans.org/
This demonstration/tutorial will highlight the automated variance reduction capabilities of the MAVRIC sequence using a few simple example shielding problems.
To optimize a given tally, MAVRIC first computes an importance map and biased source distribution based on the results of approximate discrete ordinates calculations using the Denovodiscrete ordinates code. The importance map and biased source are then used by the Monte Carlo functional module Monaco to compute that tally much more efficiently than an analog calculation. Registered SCALE 6.2 users are welcome to bring their own laptop and follow along.
Example 1: Spent Fuel Storage Installation. In this demonstration problem, MAVRIC used FW-CADIS to compute the photon dose rates at ground level up to 120 meters away in order to determine the dose rate along the site boundary. ORIGEN was used to generate the sources for the spent fuel assemblies in the casks.
Example 2: Criticality Accident Alarm System (CAAS) Analysis. SCALE has the ability to take a fission rate distribution computed by the KENO and use it as a source in MAVRIC/Monaco for CAAS applications or other applications with critical sources. The assembly in IEU-COMP-INTER-003 was simulated in the west wing of the Oak Ridge Critical Experiments Facility (Building 9213 of the Y-12 Site) to calculate the total neutron and photon dose from an imagined criticality accident.
Workshop Schedule
08:00–08:30 Introduction to MAVRIC/Monaco and CADIS (lecture)
08:30–09:00 Ueki benchmark with and without CADIS (example problem)
09:00–09:20 Introduction to FW-CADIS and coupling with ORIGEN(lecture)
09:20–09:45 FW-CADIS applied to a spent fuel storage installation (source provided by ORIGEN, example problem)
09:45–10:15 Break
10:15–10:45 Introduction to MAVRIC/Monaco simulations with critical sources (source provided by KENO-VI, lecture)
10:45–11:30 Criticality accident alarm system analysis (example problem)
11:30–12:00 Wrap up and open discussion