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Chernobyl at 40 years: Looking back at Nuclear News
Sunday, April 26, at 1:23 a.m. local time will mark 40 years since the most severe nuclear accident in history: the meltdown of Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union.
In the ensuing four decades, countless books, documentaries, articles, and conference sessions have examined Chernobyl’s history and impact from various angles. There is a similar abundance of outlooks in the archives of Nuclear News, where hundreds of scientists, advocates, critics, and politicians have shared their thoughts on Chernobyl over the years. Today, we will take a look at some highlights from the pages of NN to see how the story of Chernobyl evolved over the decades.
Egor S. Afanasenko, Dmitri V. Portnov, Julia G. Vysokikh, Yuri A. Kashchuk
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 82 | Number 4 | May 2026 | Pages 805-813
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2025.2476818
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MCNP is actually the only code in use at ITER for neutron transport modeling. The OpenMC software package is a potential alternative to it. At least, the OpenMC code can be a complement for preliminary evaluations, lost particle elimination, weight calculations for variance reduction, and similar tasks. OpenMC presents powerful and convenient functionality for these tasks. The essential advantage of OpenMC is that it is available as an open-source code. This allows one to adapt the code for one’s specific tasks. The project is supported by more than 100 developers from all around the world. The pace of the code development is excellent because of the experienced team, sound engineering process, and applied modern technologies. This paper discusses the use of the OpenMC code for ITER neutronics modeling, translation and synchronization of the models between MCNP and OpenMC, and some verification results.