SCALE 4.2

Scale is a modular code system for performing standardized computer analysis for licensing evaluation.

Usage: scale4 input output

Location: /usr/codes/scale

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The SCALE code system was conceived and funded by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to perform standardized computer analyses for licensing evaluation. This system is widely used to perform:
  1. problem-dependent multigroup cross-section processing
  2. criticality safety analyses
  3. shielding analyses
  4. heat transfer analyses
  5. spend fuel and high-level waste (HLW) characterization
The SCALE package consists of the following functional modules:
BONAMI-S
Resonance self-shielding by the Bonarenko Method
NITAWL-II
Performs resonance shielding and produces workind library
XSDRNPM-S
A one-dimensional discrete-ordinates code for transport analyses
XSDOSE
Calculates fluxes and does rates at ponits outside a shield
KENO IV/S
An improved Monte Carlo criticality program
COUPLE
processes problem-dependent cross sections and neutron spectral data for ORIGEN-S data analyses
ORIGEN-S
Calculates fuel deplection, actinide transmutation, fission product buildup and decay, and associated radiation source terms
ICE-S
Mixes multi-group cross sections
MORSE-SGC/S
Monte Carlo code
JUNEBUG-II
A three-dimensional geometry plotting code
HEATPLOT-S
A temperature distribution plotting program for heating
REGPLOT6
A plotting program to verify heating input data
PLORIGEN
A plotting program for ORIGEN-S output
OCULAR
A radiation exchange factor computer program