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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Editor's note: This article has was originally published in November 2023. It has been updated with new information as of June 2025.
Outside my office, there is a display case filled with rock samples from all over the world. It contains a disk of translucent, orange salt from the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M.; a core of white-and-bronze gneiss from the site of the future deep geologic repository in Eurajoki, Finland; several angular chunks of fine-grained, gray claystone from the underground research laboratory at Bure, France; and a piece of coarse-grained granite from the underground research tunnel in Daejeon, South Korea.
Sunday, April 27, 2025|8:00AM–5:00PM MDT
Horace Tabor
Cost: $99
Limited Space
Organizer: Paul Romano (Argonne National Laboratory), Micah Gale (Idaho National Laboratory) and Travis Labossiere-Hickman (Idaho National Laboratory)
This workshop will introduce attendees to two powerful Python-based tools for performing Monte Carlo simulations. The first tool that will be covered is MontePy, a Python library for reading, editing, and writing MCNP input files. Through hands-on demonstrations, we will show methods to automate common tasks for updating large MCNP models as well as ways to create an MCNP problem from scratch in MontePy. After covering MontePy, we will then proceed with an interactive demonstration of the OpenMC Monte Carlo code, showing how its Python API can be used to define a model, run a simulation, and analyze the results. Together, attendees will have a strong starting point for performing their own explorations using MontePy and OpenMC.
Participants should bring their laptop to follow along with the live demonstrations. There are no requirements to install software ahead of time. A link will be provided to access the software on a cloud computing platform accessible through any web browser.
