This was a hands-on training course that covered the use of ORIGEN for depletion and decay analysis, nuclide inventories, decay heat, and radiation emissions and spectra calculations.
Instruction was provided to enable all participants to:
- Understand what ORIGEN is: ORIGEN’s capabilities for depletion and decay analysis, type and role of nuclear data and nuclear data libraries, capabilities of other modules in the ORIGEN family (ORIGAMI, OBIWAN, OPUS, ARP).
- Gain confidence in creating, validating, and running input with SCALE’s graphical user interface, Fulcrum.
- Learn best practices for determining nuclide inventories, decay heat, and radiation emissions and spectra in spent nuclear fuel and activated materials.
- Gain hands-on experience through interactive tutorials and challenging real-world workshop problems: perform typical calculations with ORIGEN and ORIGAMI; determine nuclide inventories, decay heat, radiation emissions; generate ORIGEN reactor libraries using TRITON; generate and apply ORIGEN activation libraries; post-process, view, and analyze results.
The training was presented using SCALE 6.3.1. No prior knowledge of SCALE was required.