OECD/NEA Data Bank

Computer Program Service (CPS) E-Newsletter

No. 16, December 2003

1. New computer codes & related information
2. Integral Experiments
3. Workshops, Training Courses & Tutorials, Meetings

The most recently acquired or tested computer codes and data libraries are:

Note : All computer codes with documentation are now distributed exclusively in electronic form either on  CD-ROM or via FTP. No paper copies of manuals are provided.

For more details see weekly updated list (on Mondays)

• List of the programs by subject field
• Searches by keywords can be made

Integral Experiments Data for Model and Code Validation

• The latest status of the International Reactor Physics Benchmark Experiments Project is given in IRPhE . Here you can download a summary .
• The International Fuel Performance Experiments Database (IFPE) was recently enriched with new experiments (2 December 2003).
• The Shielding Benchmark Experiments Database (SINBAD) includes now 33 Reactor Shielding, 21 for Fusion Neutronics Shielding and 5 for Accelerator Shielding Experiments. The October 2003 SINBAD edition contains 10 new experiments.
• A new Edition of the CCVM (CSNI Code Validation Matrix of Thermo-Hydraulic Codes for LWR LOCA and Transients) is now available .
  

Workshops, Training Courses & Tutorials completed in 2003:

• 2nd International Workshop on 'Advanced radiation transport simulation with PENELOPE (electron-photon transport)', held in Salou (Tarragona) from 8-10 January 2003.(Penelope User Group meeting)
• MCNP5 Intermediate/Advanced Level Training Course, 24-28 March 2003, at the Imperial College, London, England 
• KENO / SCALE Training Courses 2003, 23-27 June 2003 in Paris France
• TOUGH Symposium , Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), 15-17 May, A symposium on applications and enhancements of  TOUGH (A General-Purpose Numerical Simulator for Multiphase Fluid and Heat Flow) with oral and poster presentations. Proceedings on CD-ROM will be available at the Symposium. 

Contact: Stefan Finsterle, George J. Moridis, Curtis M. Oldenburg, Yu-Shu Wu LBL, E-mail: SAFinsterle@lbl.gov
• PENELOPE-2003 (electron-photon transport) training course / tutorial , (7-10 July 2003, NEA, Paris)
• QUADOS workshop: Intercomparison on the Usage of Computational Codes in Radiation Dosimetry,    14 - 16 July  2003, Bologna, Italy, organised by: ENEA and University of Bologna, co-sponsored by: EURADOS, OECD/NEA, Contact: Gianfranco Gualdrini  
• The 2003 Frederic Joliot & Otto Hahn Summer School in Reactor Physics: Modern Reactor Physics and the Modelling of Complex Systems held at the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe/Ftu,  Hermann-Von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany from 20 - 29  August 2003
• MCNP5 Introductory Training Course, 15-19 September 2003 Issy-les-Moulineaux (France) 
• Workshop on Common Tools and Interfaces for Deterministic Radiation Transport, for Monte Carlo and Hybrid Codes ( 25-26 September 2003) . Participants will receive a copy of the proceedings containing the presentations and a summary on CD-ROM.
• MCNPX training course, Intermediate Level, 6-10 October 2003, University of Stuttgart , Rechenzentrum , Allmandring 30, D-70550 Stuttgart, Germany 
• International Conference on Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications (SNA'2003) , 22-24 September 2003, Paris, France 
• GLOBAL 2003 Conference on future nuclear energy systems and their fuel  cycles, 16-20 November 2003, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Workshops, Training Courses & Tutorials planned for 2004: 

• For 2004 Training Courses on PENELOPE and TRIPOLI-4 are planned. Announcements for possible courses on MCNP5 , MCNPX , SCALE5 and others will be made later. Future courses, tutorials etc. will be held depending on user interest and participation.

Meetings Sponsored by the Nuclear Science Committee & Data Bank


Meetings scheduled for the next two years and of interest to clients of the Computer Program Service 

In particular we signal here:

• Seminar on Pellet-Clad Interaction (PCI) in Water Reactor Fuels , 8-11 March 2004, Aix-en-Provence, France
• Tenth International Conference on Radiation Shielding (ICRS-10) with ANS Topical on Radiation Protection & Shielding (RP&S), 9-14 May 2004, Madeira Island, Portugal

News from the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA)