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NEA-1893 DECAYHEAT.MT.
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NEA-1893 DECAYHEAT.MT.

DECAYHEAT.MT, decay heat calculations from radioactive isotopes

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1. NAME OR DESIGNATION OF PROGRAM

DecayHeat.MT

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2. COMPUTERS

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Program name Package id Status Status date
DECAYHEAT.MT NEA-1893/01 Arrived 10-JUN-2016

Machines used:

Package ID Orig. computer Test computer
NEA-1893/01 Many Computers
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3. DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM OR FUNCTION

DecayHeat.MT calculates the decay heat from radioactive isotopes as time passes. Time intervals are 5; 0.1 sec for 0 to 1 sec, 1sec for 1 to 1000 sec, 10 sec for 1000 to 10000 sec, 100 sec for 10000 to sec and 1000 for 100000 to 1000000 sec. As the output, this program shows that multiplication of time and decay heat of alpha, beta, gamma, neutrino and total. In other words, α decay heat t*a(t), β beta decay heat t*b(t), γ decay heat t*g(t), energy carried by neutrino t*n(t) and total decay heat t*total are reported for each time bins. Note that energy emitted by neutrino is not included in total, i.e. total = a(t) + b(t) + g(t).

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4. METHODS

The Monte-Carlo method is used.

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6. TYPICAL RUNNING TIME

The running time of the calculation depends on the number of input isotopes and the number of events. A calculation of 1,000,000 events with 1000 isotopes takes about 90 seconds on an Intel i7 dual core process (1.90 GHz).

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7. UNUSUAL FEATURES OF THE PROGRAM

The latest update ENSDF can be used for the calculation of cumulative fission yields and radiation spectra.

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8. RELATED OR AUXILIARY PROGRAMS

Geant4.10.2.0 or higher version and related data files such as G4RadioactiveDecay and G4PhotonEvaporation. Also, Cern Root is required to analyze to the radiation spectrum data.

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9. STATUS
Package ID Status date Status
NEA-1893/01 10-JUN-2016 Masterfiled Arrived
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10. REFERENCES
  • Decay Heat and Nuclear Data, Nuclear Reactors, A. Mesquita (ED), A. Algora and J. L. Tain (2012)
    Evaluated Nuclear Structure Data File: A Manual for Preparing of Data Sets, J.K. Tuli, BNL-NCS-51655-01/02-Rev

  • ENDF/B-VII.1 Nuclear Data for Science and Technology: Cross Section, Covariances, Fission Product Yields and Decay Data, M.B. Chadwick et al., Nuclear Data Sheets 112, 2887 (2011).

NEA-1893/01, included references:
- Report on the Validation of the Code
- User's manual of DecayHeat.MT
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12. PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE(S) USED
Package ID Computer language
NEA-1893/01 C++
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13. SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

Any operating systems that support the Geant4 version 10.2.0 or higher. Note that Microsoft Windows platform currently not support multithreading.

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15. NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHORS

Jounghwa Lee, Choong-Sup Gil, Do Heon Kim

Korea Nuclear Data Center,

Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI)

111, Daedeok-daero 989Beon-gil, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon

Republic of Korea

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16. MATERIAL AVAILABLE
NEA-1893/01
program source files
operating instructions with a description of the input data and edited output
sample problem
library data files
program description
report on the Validation of the Code
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17. CATEGORIES
  • D. Depletion, Fuel Management, Cost Analysis, and Power Plant Economics

Keywords: Monte Carlo method, decay heat, radioactive isotopes.