Provided free of charge, this course offers nuclear safeguards practitioners and early carrier professionals who are interested in modeling and simulation of nuclear materials for safeguards applications two days of instruction on the use of SCALE/ORIGEN to generate libraries specific to different reactor fuels, how to use ORIGEN to estimate spent fuel inventories (e.g., U, Pu, fission products) in a reactor and generate neutron and gamma source terms in unirradiated and irradiated nuclear materials, and how to feed the inventories and source terms into nuclear detector models used in the safeguards field. Participants will also learn to use the Inverse Depletion Theory (INDEPTH) code, which uses ORIGEN as an engine, to reconstruct the initial enrichment, burnup, and cooling time of spent fuel rods or assemblies based on available destructive or nondestructive assay measurements.
No prior experience with the computational tools used in the training is required. However, all attendees are required to have an individual license for SCALE 6.2.3-EXE, which is an export-controlled software, by the time of the training.